area of devastation

As the Caldor fire continues to spread, authorities are nervously eyeing the Lake Tahoe Basin as a potential area of devastation.

“So a half-kilometer-sized object is going to create a crater that’s at least five kilometers in diameter, and it can be as much as 10 kilometers in diameter. But the area of devastation is going to be much, much broader than that, as much as 100 times the size of the crater. So an object Bennu’s size impacting on the Eastern Seaboard states would pretty much devastate things up and down the coast.”

The area of devastation would be much bigger: as much as 100 times the size of the crater.

Four months later officials revisited the area and found the area had been burned and the area of devastation increased by more than 400 hectares.

A new area of devastation was created on Oct.