Would the human race even survive?Simply put, what if the meteor had more mass? Pick one or more potential greater masses for it, as long as they're not something like one milligram extra, and extrapolate possibilties from there. You may go up to dino-killer if you want.
If it was significantly bigger, we could have a Peshawar Lancers scenario, but in 1908. "Nuclear winter" leads to collapse of advanced civilization around the world...I doubt the ability of governments at the time to relocate to tropical climates, given the panic and breakdown at home...However, look for the species to begin rebuilding after the clouds part and normal climate returns after...years? decades? Would be a cool TL for role playing. Lots of buried history and tech around and no one knows what it is...plus throw in mutants from radioactive asteroid fragments...!!
Simply put, what if the meteor had more mass? Pick one or more potential greater masses for it, as long as they're not something like one milligram extra, and extrapolate possibilties from there. You may go up to dino-killer if you want.
I have a better one, what if the Tunguska meteor landed in the middle of St. Petersbug and wiping out the entire Imperial family...
Well what happens now?
I have a better one, what if the Tunguska meteor landed in the middle of St. Petersbug and wiping out the entire Imperial family...
Well what happens now?
You need a factor 10 or so in the mass for the blast to destroy a settlement (hunters´ tents in the woods don´t count).
With the factor 100, the effect world-wide would be similar to Krakatoa explosion, and Irkutsk as well as Krasnoyarsk may suffer damage by resulting earthquake and ash falls
(Is a geologist here? Is the Siberian underlying rock conductive for earthquake waves like the Canadian Shield, or fractured and inconductive like California?)
Factor 1000: impact winter, crop failure in wide parts of the world, economic collapse, massive die-off of population.