A meteor exploded over the city of Pittsburgh on New Year’s Day (Getty)Residents of Pittsburgh in the United States got an explosive start to the new year when a meteor blew up overhead. According to Nasa, the detonation of the meteor was the equivalent to 30 tonnes of TNT. That bomb was around 16 tonnes of TNT. Earlier in London in 1917, 50 tonnes of TNT exploded at a factory making munitions for World War One. The loud explosion heard over SW PA earlier may have been a meteor explosion.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2022 14:57 UTC