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and leaving its signature scattered throughout the geological record. Now, new research suggests that the impact also triggered a"mega earthquake" that released energy equivalent to 10^23 joules — around 50,000 times more energy than was released by the magnitude 9.1 earthquake that hit Sumatra in 2004.
Spherules are small glass beads no larger than a grain of sand that form when heat and pressure from a massive impact melt material from Earth's crust and eject it into the atmosphere, where it cools to glass beads and then falls back Earth. In addition to the spherules, Bermúdez found in the same sediments more shardlike tektites and microtektites, which also represent material ejected into the atmosphere during an asteroid impact.
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