The History of Tunguska The Tunguska River Valley is a site of enormous geological and historical importance. No one knows exactly what happened on June 30, 1908, deep in the Siberian wilderness of Tunguska, Russia. On that morning, seismic instruments in London registered earth tremors originating in the Tunguska region.
As reports slowly began to arrive in Europe, scientists heard that a burst of light was witnessed more than 100 miles from the epicenter. The blast was calculated to have the power of 10 to 15 megatons…but without the contamination or crater an explosion would create.
Quite the opposite was true: Rather than making a desert of Tunguska, the burst of light made a kind of Garden of Eden, an oasis of fertility where herbs and plants grow at four times their normal rate and to as much as three times their normal size.
Read more about the mysterious event that changed the Tunguska River Valley.
