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How did the impact affect the life around the barringer meteor crater?

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The impact certainly killed everything around for several miles; the impact would have been the equivalent of a sizeable nuclear explosion, without the radioactive fallout.

Imagine living around Mount Saint Helens when it blew. It would have been MUCH worse than that.

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