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Perhaps more frightening is the blow-by-blow result of the impact, which scientists were also able to reconstruct. According to the study, the asteroid would have displaced all of the water in the area, which was around 800 meters deep at that time, shooting a massive "train of tsunamis" into the Atlantic Ocean.
Sediment would've rushed in to fill the new hole made by the impact, causing a brim to form. Some of the sediment would have been vaporized during impact. The tsunamis were measured to have impacted the seafloor upwards of 20 kilometers away.
From there, a massive earthquake would have caused damage below the seabed, up to and including the liquefaction of the underlying rock across the entire area near the crater. The train of tsunamis would eventually reverse and come back as water filled the area once again.
In addition to all of that, scientists say that the impact would have caused ionospheric disturbances and thermal radiation. Massive landslides would've occurred as parts of the seafloor plateau crashed further into the ocean.
Fortunately for humans, these types of impacts are exceedingly rare. The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide" asteroid that exploded over Russia in 2013. There is a very small chance that Bennu, a similarly sized asteroid, could hit Earth sometime around the year 2300. The odds of that happening are about one in 1,750.
Source: cnet.com
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