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Where did the Tunguska event of 30 June 1908 occur?
The explosion occurred above the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, central Siberia, around 7:14 AM local time. It flattened roughly 2,150 square kilometres of forest and was equivalent to about 10–15 megatons of TNT. The first scientific expedition (Leonid Kulik's) did not reach the site for nineteen years.
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The Morning the Siberian Sky Caught Fire On 30 June 1908 something exploded above central Siberia with the force of a hydrogen bomb. It took the first scientists nineteen years to reach the site.
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