If this material lingered in the atmosphere for long enough it would cause plants to die and would slowly starve everything on Earth. This has the potential to kill people who are far away enough from the asteroid to be safe from the fireball and overpressure. But a tsunami wave takes quite a long time to spread across a large ocean, giving people the chance to save themselves by scrambling to higher land.
But quakes are only considered to only have a "minor effect" on the number of casualties. The asteroid is unlikely to cause the same sort of devastation caused by the sort of natural disasters humans are familiar with.
If you're far away enough from the asteroid that you don't have to worry about being burned alive or blown to bits, you probably don't have to worry about earthquakes shaking your house down on top of you. We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips the-sun. Oct 24, Recommended for you. SpaceX crew launch marks space travelers in 60 years Nov 11, Nov 10, Nov 09, Load comments 0.
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