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Reporter: Fauzan Jamaludin
Merdeka.com – About 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Wiped out most of the life on this planet.
The impact of the fall of the asteroid left a crater 110 miles wide and 12 miles deep and produced the most devastating major tsunami disaster.
Scientists estimate the waves reached an unexpected height of 2.5 miles when the asteroid hit land at that time. The disaster is thought to be 30,000 times larger than any other recorded event.
NYPost reported, Thursday (9/2), to avoid bad things from happening in the future, NOAA scientists have created a tsunami simulation when it reverberates around the planet, superimposing what this planet looked like when 66 million years ago and what white lines Earth looked like At the moment.
The worst waves were concentrated near the prehistoric zone around the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican peninsula. But the big waves were able to reach almost all of the ocean’s coastline.
NOAA said that the tsunami was so powerful, it destroyed almost all dinosaur species and 75 percent of other plant and animal species on Earth.
The reconstruction aims to allow NASA to find ways to deflect or destroy large asteroids that threaten Earth. Save humanity from the same fate as the dinosaurs.
The reason is, the average asteroid attack of that size occurs within millions of years. But to prevent humanity from meeting the same fate one day, NASA is researching ways to deflect or destroy a large asteroid that threatens Earth.
The new simulation was created as part of NOAA’s Science on a Sphere project, which uses computers and a video projector to display planetary data onto a 6-foot-diameter sphere, similar to a giant animated globe. SOS is featured in 177 exhibits at science centers and museums across the US and the world.
(mdk/phase)
