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160-Meter Asteroid Confirmed as Source of North Sea's Silverpit Crater and 330-Foot Tsunami

A rock roughly 160 meters wide slammed into shallow seawater east of Britain and sent a wall of water over 100 meters high radiating outward across what is now the North Sea. The strike happened between 43 and 46 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch, when the region sat under warm shallow ocean instead […] The post 160-Meter Asteroid Confirmed as Source of North Sea’s Silverpit Crater and 330-Foot Tsunami appeared first on Above The Norm N…
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abovethenormnews.com broke the news on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
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