Database: The Tunguska Event

The Tunguska event was a large explosion, supposedly caused by an asteroid or comet, which occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, on June 1908. It is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history and is estimated to have delivered an equivalent of 10 to 30 megatons of TNT, making it a thousand times greater than the explosion of the A-bomb on Hiroshima. It is estimated that the Tunguska explosion knocked down some 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 square kilometers. The explosion was actually the result of the use of Tesla's Teleforce weapon on the Staff of Eden, which was at the time in the hands of Templars.