Asteroid Impact Confirmed as Origin of North Sea's Silverpit Crater

Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, located 700 meters beneath the North Sea, was formed by a 160-meter-wide asteroid impact 43 to 46 million years ago. This discovery resolves a decades-long mystery, with findings published in Nature Communications detailing the violent collision that generated a 1.5-kilometer curtain of rock and water and a tsunami over 100 meters high. The research provides compelling evidence for the crater's asteroid origin, first identified in 2002.