Marcin Cimala wrote: > As You all see in TV, Indonesia and other countries was devastated by > Tsunami produced by big Earthquake. How You think, what size of > meteorite/asteroide can produce the same effects ? > 10m? 50m ? Ofcourse, impact in the same place where was earthquake center.
I can't give a precise answert to that question, but I think that a 10m or 50m asteroid would be to small. You would probably need an asteroid in the 100m range to cause these effects over thousands of kilometers. There is, however, a simulation of a 1.1km asteroid impacting ~500km before the US east coast. It generates Tsunamis up to >100m in height on the US coastline, and ~10m on the European coast. A graph showing this is available here: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/1950da/Ward_Asphaug_fig2_martin-SMALL.jpg The full paper (5.5MB pdf) can be downloaded here: http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/gji_final_35N.pdf Best greetings, Herbert Raab ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list