Unfortunately, an enormous asteroid was about to hit our planet ... Then all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by and ripping up the sea floor,” Nadja Drabon, an early-Earth ...

Hidden beneath the East Coast of the United States lies the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, a colossal structure formed 35 ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the ... It would have been a “catastrophic event”, the scientists say, causing a tsunami at least 800m high to tear across the Atlantic ocean.

“Over a human time scale, these asteroid impacts would be a disaster. They would create a massive shockwave and tsunami, there would be widespread fires, and large amounts of dust would be sent ...

"A tsunami would have taken at least 17 or more ... finding an anomalous concentration of iridium - the fingerprint of an asteroid or comet," said Prof Alvarez. "Since then, the evidence has ...

Although smaller than the asteroid associated with the mass extinction ... The collision is believed to have generated a massive tsunami, estimated to have exceeded 800 meters in height, which ...

On impact, the research shows, the Chicxulub asteroid - which was more than 6 miles wide - sparked wildfires that stretched for hundreds of miles, triggered a mile-high tsunami, and released ...

“Over a human time scale, these asteroid impacts would be a disaster. They would create a massive shockwave and tsunami, there would be widespread fires, and large amounts of dust would be sent into ...