Near Earth Objects to Hit Planet - Where is the Safest Place to Live.

Near Earth Objects to Hit Planet

Most people do not realize how often our planet narrowly misses "the big one" as in a large Meteor or Asteroid hitting the Earth, and such a NEO or Near-Earth-Object hitting the Earth is guaranteed, there have been many in the past and will be many in the future. Really large ones could end life for most species on the planet in fact, yes, perhaps including wiping out a good chuck of humanity as well. Not funny.

Not long ago, I met an acquaintance in Ecuador and he stated he was living there because of its location. Well, I asked him; "Are you in the belief that a NEO will hit the Earth and cause catastrophic problems, giant ocean waves, thus being near the equator makes the most sense, and since Ecuador is on the equator and has one of the highest mountain, it is therefore the safest place?"

You see, a really large NEO hitting the earth as in 50-100 meters across could cause a gigantic Tsunami making the Indonesia Tsunami look like a fly hitting the Jacuzzi water compared to a mega-tidal surge of such enormous proportion that unless you were living at high altitude (up in the mountains) or 500 miles from the coast, you may not make it.

But, if an NEO hits the Earth and our Earth's atmosphere is compromised the higher elevations maybe the most dangerous as the air is already thinner, so sea level would be better, thus, Death Valley CA, inland, safe from 1000 ft Tsunamis and yet, 200 feet below sea level, in that case it might be best. Turns out, that the software modeling of such an event depending on the location of impact, might make every place on Earth pretty unsafe, both short and long-term.

And Ecuador has volcanoes too, so a major jarring of Earth, great movements in plate tectonics would cause many volcanoes to erupt simultaneously, including those within 500 to 1,000 miles of my acquaintance's home and current location. Add in prevailing weather patterns and those modified after such an event and well, all-bets are off due to changes from a strike of a large magnitude.

According to SpaceWeather [dot] com; and a huge Asteroid over ten-meters across exploded in the Earth's Atmosphere not too long ago over Indonesia and no one in the NEO community saw it coming, further SpaceWeather noted;

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