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The impact would have released the energy equivalent to a hundred teratons of TNT ([[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure roughly two million times more powerful than the detonation of the Tsar Bomba, or more than a thousand times more than every nuclear weapon ever created used at once]]) and carved out a hole in the planet over a hundred miles wide and two miles deep. As it struck the planet, it would caused an earthquake felt across the world, creating worldwide tsunamis more than five kilometres high. Fire would have started to rain down as superheated debris and rock thrown up by the meteor would start to obey the effects of gravity. A blast front radiated in all directions from the impact, a wave of hot death that would have incinerated almost everything in its path, [[ApocalypseHow which would have been the entire planet]].\\\

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The impact would have released the energy equivalent to a hundred teratons of TNT ([[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure roughly two million times more powerful than the detonation of the Tsar Bomba, or more than a thousand times more than every nuclear weapon ever created used at once]]) and carved out a hole in the planet over a hundred miles wide and two miles deep. The amount of thermal radiation generated by the blast would have instantly incinerated anything within a 1000-mile radius. As it struck the planet, it would caused an earthquake felt across the world, creating worldwide tsunamis more than five kilometres high. Fire The ejecta would have started to rain down as superheated debris and rock thrown up by the meteor would start to obey the effects of gravity. A blast front radiated in all directions from the impact, a wave of hot death that would have incinerated almost everything in its path, [[ApocalypseHow which would have been the entire planet]].\\\
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This process would most likely have taken tens of thousands, perhaps even millions of years, to end, but when it was finished, the dinosaurs were gone. Any that potentially survived even all that would have certainly become extinct soon after, as their populations dropped below the threshold that would allow them to recover and sustain genetic diversity. The only surviving dinosaurs, technically speaking, are the neornithines, or modern-type birds.\\\

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This process would most likely have taken tens of thousands, perhaps even millions of years, to end, but when it was finished, the non-avian dinosaurs were gone. Any that potentially survived even all that would have certainly become extinct soon after, as their populations dropped below the threshold that would allow them to recover and sustain genetic diversity. The only surviving dinosaurs, technically speaking, are the neornithines, or modern-type birds.\\\

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