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tunguska event

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

Syllables
tun-guska event
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A huge explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908, generally attributed to a meteor airburst.

Inflected Forms

the Tunguska event (canonical)

Frequently Paired Words

Tunguskan

Synonyms

Tunguska incident

Questions

What does tunguska event mean?
A huge explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908, generally attributed to a meteor airburst.

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