{"id":183095,"date":"2024-02-19T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasa-reveals-how-it-would-warn-world-of-impending-asteroid-disaster"},"modified":"2024-02-19T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:25:04","slug":"nasa-reveals-how-it-would-warn-world-of-impending-asteroid-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasa-reveals-how-it-would-warn-world-of-impending-asteroid-disaster","title":{"rendered":"NASA Reveals How It Would Warn World of Impending Asteroid Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-reveals-how-it-would-warn-world-of-impending-asteroid-disaster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-did-an-asteroid-kill-the-dinosaurs-and-could-it-happen-again\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Chicxulub<\/a> impactor, a six-mile-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">asteroid<\/a>, struck Earth 66 million years ago, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dinosaurs-going-extinct-before-asteroid-hit-earth-study-2021-6\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"40\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dinosaurs-going-extinct-before-asteroid-hit-earth-study-2021-6\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"b5afbf18-2887-43da-acfd-5e9283c30938\" data-uri=\"728d2185bf520495d0d212d15134b4dd\">dinosaurs had no warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If an asteroid that size hit Earth today, a shock wave two million times more powerful than a hydrogen bomb would flatten forests and trigger tsunamis. A seismic pulse equal to a magnitude 10 earthquake would crumble cities.<\/p>\n<p>And long after the impact, a cloud of hot dust, ash, and steam would blot out the sun, plunging the Earth into freezing cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Chicxulub impactor, a six-mile-wide asteroid, struck Earth 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs had no warning. If an asteroid that size hit Earth today, a shock wave two million times more powerful than a hydrogen bomb would flatten forests and trigger tsunamis. A seismic pulse equal to a magnitude 10 earthquake would crumble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}