History of the Tunguska Blast
A Mysterious Blast in 1908
The first anyone outside Russia knew about Tunguska
was on the morning of June 30, 1908, when seismic instruments in London registered huge earth tremors originating in the Tunguska
region.
As reports slowly began to arrive in Europe, scientists heard that a burst of light was witnessed more
than 100 miles from the epicenter. The blast was calculated to have the power of 10 to 15 megatons…but without
the contamination or crater an explosion would create.
Quite the opposite was true: Rather than making a desert of Tunguska, the burst of light made a kind
of Garden of Eden, an oasis of fertility where herbs and plants grow at four times their normal rate and to as much as three
times their normal size.
After nearly a century of study and research, scientists
still can’t explain precisely what occurred deep in the Siberian wilderness of Tunguska, Russia.
Some scientists have suggested a meteor strike, but if so, it was the largest since the pre-history of the earth,
and it left no crater. Some have theorized a comet or the airburst of a meteor 5 or 6 miles above the earth, which still does
not account for the unexpected and unexplainable botanical benefits to the area.
This much has been proven: A cataclysmic event more dramatic than any since the biblical Flood felled
more than 200 million trees over 850 square miles. And something about the event had the effect of impregnating the soil with
a dense organic infusion resulting in “miracle harvests” of the herbs, roots, and other plants grown in that region.
Herbs and other plants cultivated in the subarctic conditions of Tunguska
grow at four times the rate of similar species harvested in more temperate climates. And that’s not the only
difference:
Science is still unraveling the full nutritional significance of the Tunguska Effect.
