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DOI | 10.1002/2017GL073191 |
Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations | |
Rumpf, Clemens M.1; Lewis, Hugh G.1; Atkinson, Peter M.2,3,4 | |
2017-04-28 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 44期号:8 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; North Ireland |
英文摘要 | A set of 50,000 artificial Earth impacting asteroids was used to obtain, for the first time, information about the dominance of individual impact effects such as wind blast, overpressure shock, thermal radiation, cratering, seismic shaking, ejecta deposition, and tsunami for the loss of human life during an impact event for impactor sizes between 15 and 400m and how the dominance of impact effects changes over size. Information about the dominance of each impact effect can enable disaster managers to plan for the most relevant effects in the event of an asteroid impact. Furthermore, the analysis of average casualty numbers per impactor shows that there is a significant difference in expected loss for airburst and surface impacts and that the average impact over land is an order of magnitude more dangerous than one over water. Plain Language Summary The impacts of 50,000 asteroids have been simulated all over the Earth, and this analysis gave new insights into the asteroid impact hazard. The expected number of casualties for an impactor of a given size has been determined. Furthermore, it was analyzed which of the resulting impact effects are most dominant for the human population. This research increases our understanding of the asteroid impact hazard and how to prepare to it. A surprising result was that tsunamis are less of a threat than generally assumed in the literature. The analysis is valid for asteroids up to 400m in diameter, and these asteroids collide with Earth more often than larger asteroids, increasing this research's relevance. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000401847500001 |
WOS关键词 | EARTH ; CHELYABINSK ; FRAGMENTATION ; ATMOSPHERE ; AIRBURST ; COMETS |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/28454 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Southampton, Engn & Environm, Southampton, Hants, England; 2.Univ Lancaster, Fac Sci & Technol, Lancaster, England; 3.Univ Southampton, Geog & Environm, Southampton, Hants, England; 4.Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Geog Archaeol & Palaeoecol, Belfast, Antrim, North Ireland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rumpf, Clemens M.,Lewis, Hugh G.,Atkinson, Peter M.. Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,44(8). |
APA | Rumpf, Clemens M.,Lewis, Hugh G.,&Atkinson, Peter M..(2017).Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,44(8). |
MLA | Rumpf, Clemens M.,et al."Asteroid impact effects and their immediate hazards for human populations".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44.8(2017). |
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