Researchers estimate that the tsunami that occurred 66 million years ago was about 30 thousand times more than the energy of a tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in 2004.
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about 66 million years ago today asteroid That is, the asteroids collided with the earth and the existence of dinosaurs had ended. The asteroid not only killed the dinosaurs, but also killed three-quarters of the Earth’s plants and other animals. Now a new study has found that the same asteroid with high waves brought a global tsunami. This triggered a tsunami across the world. These asteroids hit the earth at a speed of 43 thousand km per hour.
According to the Indian Express report, researchers from the University of Michigan have done a new study on the research done in this regard. From their first simulation, researchers have come to the conclusion that the terrifying tsunami left its mark, ravaging the ocean floor. The place where the 14-kilometer-wide asteroid is believed to have fallen is currently in the Gulf of Mexico.
The team of researchers has drawn conclusions from the previous study and modeled a 14 km wide asteroid coming at a speed of 43 thousand km per hour. During this computer modeling, the study was done keeping in mind the geological records at about 100 sites around the world.
tsunami destroyed sea level
Researchers from the University of Michigan, Molly Range, said that this tsunami was enough to destroy half of the world’s ocean floor. Some of the most important geological evidence found by the team of researchers was 12,000 km from the Chicxulub crater on the eastern shores of the islands north and south of New Zealand. Scientists saw a lot of marks in the sea level here.
The team of researchers estimates that the tsunami that occurred 66 million years ago was about 30 thousand times more than the energy of a tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean in 2004. The 2004 tsunami is one of the biggest tsunamis of recent centuries, in which more than 2.30 lakh people died.
Another asteroid also fell into the sea
What could be the effect of the asteroid falling into the sea, it was known in a report recently. Experts estimate that millions of years ago another asteroid crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Because of this, an 8.5 km wide crater was found in the sea level, which has been found about 400 km off the coast of Guinea in West Africa and about 400 meters below sea level.
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