Amazon event (Wormwood)

The Amazon Event is the named used to described the collision of asteroid 1969 OM 22  into the Amazon basin of Brazil on 21 July 1969. Resulting in the largest explosion in recorded history, the event is considered to be the worst natural disaster of all time causing 7.4 million deaths as a direct result of the impact with a further 3.1 billion (86% of the world's population) dying as a result of the indirect environmental catastrophe that followed in its wake.