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On the morning of 30 June 1908, in the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin of Siberia, the largest cosmic airburst in recorded history occurred. The event flattened and incinerated an estimated 80 million trees across an area of approximately 2,150 square kilometers. The energy released by the explosion is estimated at 10 to 15 megatons of TNT equivalent, roughly a thousand times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. One of the most striking features of the event is the absenc