Map of Earth.
Tunguska was an area on Earth's surface, in the Siberia region of the Asian continent.
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As referred to by Hikaru Sulu, in this area an unknown phenomena had taken place. In this, a unknown object had exploded over this area with the force of a ten to twenty megaton H-bomb. An unmanned Vulcan robot probe in the Sol system had diverted a cometary fragment heading for a highly populated area of central Europe, directing it instead toward a sparsely populated region of Siberia, near Tunguska. (TOS novel: Prime Directive)
The 40,000-ton meteorite struck in 1908. It shattered before impact, a sight witnessed from more than 100 miles away and described as a fireball brighter than the sun. The blast set fire to a 20-mile-long, one-mile wide path of land, destroying 80 million trees and killing 1,500 reindeer. (Star Trek Annual 1977 article: "McCoy's Meteorites")
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- TOS episode: "That Which Survives"
- Star Trek Annual 1977 article: "McCoy's Meteorites"
- TOS novel: Prime Directive