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* The Chernobyl exclusion zone is by no means a safe area even decades from the disaster, but the destruction of everything living that many foresaw would happen through horrible mutations never took place. There have been mutations, and certainly many animals have died from the radiation in their food, but evolution has done its work, and through natural selection vegetation and wildlife in the area has grown more resilient to radiation damage, and has been reclaiming the area with fervor.
** The fact humans tend to avoid Chernobyl exclusion zone has helped a lot.
* [[The Tunguska Event]]. This mysterious disaster that occurred in 1908, which leveled about 800 square miles of - thankfully uninhabited - woodland in northern Russia. Entire forests were burned to ash, shockwaves were felt globally, and the sky was lit with a fiery glow for weeks afterwards. Clearly, the fact that this did not occur in an inhabited area is a miracle, but if one accepts the most common theory that the cause was a 200-foot diameter meteor traveling at 60,000 MPH which then exploded before striking the surface (evident by the lack of a crater), than this was an even closer call. Had such a meteor actually struck the surface (which might have happened had had it occurred even a few hours sooner, given the Earth's orbital position), the impact would have destroyed St. Petersburg, Oslo, Helsinki, and Stockholm (plus every smaller town and city in-between) ''at least''.
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