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A permanent, intense aftershock appears to have been caused by the fall of the asteroid that shook the Earth and crushed other species of dinosaurs and reptiles about 66 million years ago.
That was the conclusion of scientific teams from the United States and Mexico who worked together to collect evidence as part of research into the age of the dinosaurs. In fact, experts have also determined the duration of the Great Earthquake, putting it on a scale of weeks and even months.
The asteroid, called Chicxulub and about ten kilometers in diameter, which fell in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, caused a hole 180 to 200 kilometers in diameter in the Earth.
The researchers, led by Hermann Bermudez of the University of Montclair in New Jersey, who will make the announcement at a Geological Society of America scientific conference on Sunday, estimate that the “mega quake” caused by the asteroid impact was fired about 50,000 times. More than the energy released in the 2004 Sumatra earthquake of magnitude 9.1.
A few days ago, other scientists announced the results of a modeling study, according to which the impact of the asteroid caused a tsunami of global proportions with an initial height of one and a half kilometers. In the same vein, the University of Montclair study moved, to prove that the earthquake caused a massive tsunami with more effects on the planet’s surface.
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