Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Spawned a 1-Mile-High Mega-Tsunami (Video)

According to U.S. National Science Foundation:

“If superheated winds and a rain of molten rock from the skies were not enough, a 1.5 km high tsunami immediately followed the impact, with subsequent tsunamis 50 to 150 meters high created by ensuing earthquakes, transporting sediments and debris to what is now Florida and Texas.

"The impact and tsunamis transported 48,000 cubic miles of sediment across the Gulf of Mexico, covering swathes of Mexico and the Caribbean in hundreds of feet of debris. In addition to spawning massive earthquakes at the impact site (of a magnitude between 9 and 11), the shockwave from the asteroid triggered earthquakes and volcanic activity around the world.”

But the wave could’ve been a lot bigger.

Per the YouTuber above, he explains:

“It [the tsunami] was powerful enough to completely submerge entire mountains, or nearly match the height of two Burj Khalifas, stacked one on top of the other. But fortunately, the asteroid struck in relatively shallow waters.

“If the impact had taken place in deeper waters, the waves could have could have reached a staggering height of 4.6 kilometers (2.8 miles), meaning that, if you were anywhere in Europe, you would have only been safe on the very peaks of the highest mountains. And absolutely nowhere else. Everything else would have been completely and utterly devastated.”

And the world would have looked a lot different today. What happens if another world-killing asteroid and resultant mega-tsunami happens in modern times? TBD.