The Tunguska event was a large explosion, caused by a meteor, which occurred near the Stony Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, in the morning of June 30,1908 (N.S.).
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of a meteor near the Stony Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, a sparsely populated region of the Eastern Siberian Taiga, Russia. The event occured in the morning of June 30,1908 (N.S.).