Shock with a devastating degree of devastation when asteroids hit Earth

The collision can immediately erase a large city in a split second or create a tsunami, while dust, smoke and ash from burnt forests will make the global atmosphere nearly impossible to breathe.

An asteroid when crashing into Earth will cause catastrophic consequences.

In the past time, there has been continuous information about flying asteroids passing through the earth and it is quite possible that one day there will be collisions with the planet of mankind. So what happens then?

Russian scientists have calculated the collision of a 1km-wide asteroid with Earth that can immediately erase a large city in a snap or create a tsunami .

According to Radio Sputnik, a script is often found in sci-fi films, experts from the Institute of Scientific Research of the Russian Emergency Situation Ministry, the Institute of Astronomy and the Institute of Geospatial Dynamics Russia has made a judgment that if an asteroid 1km in size when crashing into the Earth will cause catastrophic consequences.

In a recently published study, scientists explain to such large sized asteroids that will not be burned during the process of crossing the Earth's atmosphere and the amount of energy they liberating or influencing enough to create seismic waves that can spread to hundreds of kilometers and burn a large area.

According to research results, brick walls of 24-36 cm thick will begin to crumble under a pressure of about 20 kPa, and concrete walls of the same size will be completely destroyed under pressure of 35 kPa. The affected area under the pressure of over 35 Kpa falls will spread about 400 km.

Scientists also warn all the catastrophic consequences will occur only in a snap when an asteroid hits the Earth's surface, and after 10 minutes, the entire affected area will be covered. by thick dust and smoke spreading to 800 km.

Besides, when combined with dust in the air due to the impact of the collision, smoke and ash from the burnt forests will make the global atmosphere almost impossible to breathe.

Not only that, the result of electromagnetic interference can seriously affect worldwide telecommunications and satellite systems.

However, the only bright spot in this research report is that scientists concluded that such catastrophic crashes only occur once a million years.

Earlier, the meteorite fell on the Ural city of Chelyabinsk (Russia) that exploded over a 30-kilometer area on February 15, 2013, and injured more than 1,000 people and damaged more than 3,700 buildings. The meteorite falling in Russia has a volume of 10,000 tons, and only 17m wide.