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New research reveals more about the impact of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Scientists from the University of Michigan have discovered that the nine-mile diameter asteroid also triggered a “mile-high” tsunami.
Researchers studied the asteroid’s impact site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, as well as 100 other locations around the world, and were able to recreate simulations of just how far the water reached. They discovered that the space rock was hurtling at 27-thousand miles per hour and created a 62-mile wide crater that released “dense clouds of soot and dust into the atmosphere.” And just two minutes after it hit the earth, a massive wall of water - nearly three miles high - shot up before hitting land as a catastrophic wave.
Compared to the Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami of 2004, the prehistoric tidal wave from 66-million years ago was “up to 30-thousand times larger.”
Source: NY Post