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To: BenLurkin
"The explosion flattened trees in a 2,000 square kilometer area."

Being an American, I can visualize miles far better than I can kilometers. I just converted that figure to miles, which (if my math is right) comes out to about 730 square miles.

That's an area over twenty seven miles on a side.

I don't know about you, but getting a picture of something flattening an area that large just boggles my mind. I never had any idea the Tunguska blast was that huge.

11 posted on 05/02/2013 7:05:32 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

730 square miles is about the size of the island of Maui and more than ten times the size of the District of Columbia.


13 posted on 05/02/2013 8:18:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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