An Explosion in Siberia in 1908 Was 1,000 Times More Powerful Than Hiroshima—No Crater Was EverFound

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]On June 30th, 1908, an explosion in Siberia flattened 2,150 square kilometers of forest.

[00:00:08]Larger than London, 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

[00:00:14]Tunguska River region, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia.

[00:00:18]The explosion released 10 to 15 megatons of TNT.

[00:00:22]Seismic stations across Europe recorded the shock wave.

[00:00:26]The night sky glowed for weeks. The first expedition reached the site 19 years later.

[00:00:33]80 million trees flattened in a radial pattern pointing away from a single central point.

[00:00:40]No crater, no fragments.

[00:00:42]An air burst of 10 to 15 megatons should leave recoverable material.

[00:00:48]After 116 years of searching, none has been confirmed.

[00:00:53]Scientists confirm the energy, the date, the blast pattern.

[00:00:57]They have not confirmed what exploded.

[00:01:00]The 2013 lake core results suggesting possible material have not been independently verified. Next, Patomskiy crater, a 40-meter limestone cone in Siberia, no confirmed origin, trees growing faster around it than anywhere in the region.

[00:01:18]The forest has regrown.

[00:01:20]The trees are standing again.

[00:01:23]What flattened 80 million of them in 1908 is still formally undetermined.