The risk of asteroid disaster falling into England in this decade

Scientists predict the risk of a terrible tsunami, caused by asteroids plunging to Earth, which could happen in the UK during this decade and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

The risk of asteroids falling into England in this decade

By using Armor software , the University of Southampton expert team estimates the possibility of space rocks falling on the British coast in the next 85 years to 1 / 10,000. Its impact will lead to a massive tsunami , threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living near the coast.

Collisions from massive objects in space can create serious climate change, causing earthquakes and tsunamis.(Artwork: NASA)

Armor helps predict falling areas and damage levels. According to the calculation of this software, scientists identify areas at risk from asteroids running across Europe, via Scandinavia, Germany, France and Spain. The risk in England occurs because asteroids fall into the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.

" When an asteroid attacks, one of the biggest problems is the tsunami. He is an island with many beaches and the population is quite crowded. Therefore, this is a danger. , " RT on June 29 quoted Clemens Rumpf, Armor software developer, said.

In the study, the team discovered 13,000 asteroids and about 500 of them could plunge to Earth . Rumpf hopes these predictions can help organizations around the world like the United Nations make decisions about action plans.

According to IB Times, similar large collisions, once thought to be the death knell of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, are often rare. The last time this event occurred was in 1908, when an alien object 50 meters across fell to Earth. The Tunguska explosion then had the energy equivalent to 1,000 atomic bombs, flattened 80 million trees and caused shockwaves across Russia.