A recent study revealed that the asteroid strike killing the dinosaurs may have been the reason behind a powerful earthquake. The massive earthquake caused by the strike might have lasted for weeks, if not months.
The Finding
We need to go back to 66 million years ago to understand further. A vast solar system at that time collided with the Earth and excavated a 110-mile large impact crater in the area now known as the Yucatan Peninsula of southwestern Mexico.
The collision triggered a series of happenings which, along with the initial devastation brought on by the asteroid strike, wiped out most of the lives on Earth. Almost seventy-five percent of lives got destroyed as a result of the strike.
The Research
Researchers worked with several geological records from this period and analyzed them well for years. After the analysis, they suggest that the strike’s impact might have been a massive earthquake shaking the soil for weeks or even months.
About Hermann Bermudez
Hermann Bermudez, a scientist at Montclair State University, presented the study reports at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. He was one of the researchers working on the geological records of the asteroid strike.
Bermudez is the same person who discovered shards and spheres of glass which were very tiny, not even one millimeter, found on Gorgonilla Island, located in the west of Colombia.
Other Impacts of the Strike
Those tiny pieces of glass shards and spheres were also formed on the same day of an asteroid strike. Melted materials in colossal quantities were thrown into the air as an impact of the collision, and all the materials later came back to Earth, some as glass balls and others as debris of irregular shapes.
Apart from the tiny materials found at the site, which was underwater at the time of the strike, Bermudez and his fellow researchers documented cracks and faults.
