How would Budapest react to huge meteorite infall?

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Holes as big as a house, broken windows, injured people and severe damages. These are the leftovers of a meteorite infall as it turns out from a latest published university thesis written by Tamás Danszky-Igaz from the University of Public Service, Budapest. The Hungarian student wrote his MSc thesis about what would the capital do if an actual meteorite infall happened in the city.
According to csillagaszat.hu, recent studies revealed that smaller and bigger meteorites hit the surface of the Earth in many locations more and more often. Most of these objects perish while it passes the planet’s atmosphere but in every year meteorites bigger than one meter are registered at some places and the damage those cause.
Tamás Danszky-Igaz’s thesis work envisages that a six-meter wide massive meteorite hits Budapest. Its speed and structure (rock and metal) cause severe damages in the city. What can the capital do?
The impact crater is approximately 160 meters deep; all the houses suffer damages with broken windows and walls, and the dust and rock covering the area make the work of the rescue teams harder. There is no water, electricity and telecommunication in the whole area and many residents are left without a home. It is the Hungarian Disaster Management’s task to handle the destruction, which shows that their duties not only cover putting out a fire and saving stuck cars and people after heavy storms.





