it wiped out the dinosaurs – and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. The asteroid, about 8.7 miles (14 kilometers) wide, left an impact crater about 62 ...

A study published today in the journal AGU Advances shows that the asteroid also triggered a monstrous tsunami with mile-high waves that scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles from the impact ...

The dinosaur-killing asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago also triggered a jumbo-size tsunami with mile-high waves in the Gulf of Mexico whose waters traveled halfway around the ...

"This tsunami was strong enough to disturb and ... marine sediments deposited just before or just after the asteroid impact and the subsequent K-Pg mass extinction, which closed the Cretaceous ...

The size of the asteroid is about two to seven times ... released about 56 megatons. This massive impact would've created a mega tsunami over 800 feet high, almost three times the size of the ...

(via CNN) The study’s authors traced the path of the tsunami from the dino-killing asteroid’s point of impact, which is believed to have hit near the Yucatan peninsula. Known as the Chicxulub ...

If such an explosion occurred over the ocean, the impact would be less concerning, unless it happens near a coastline triggering a tsunami. Aside from the nearly 0% chance the asteroid will miss ...

But scientists say they expect the asteroid’s future trajectory and impact probability to change ... can set fire to surrounding environment and tsunami waves for impacts in the ocean.” ...

The team used a two-stage strategy to model the progress of the asteroid impact and the subsequent tsunami it triggered. The first step was to model the chaos that was the first 10 minutes of the ...