[meteorite-list] 1930s Tunguska-Like Event?

[Walter Branch]

Hello Everyone,

I have made up my mind that I am attending Tucson next year.  I am more than 
a little jealous, reading all these wonderful reports and seeing the photos.

Relevant to my subject line, I have just settled down with Roy Gallent's 
book, "Meteorite Hunter:  The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters."  In 
the forward, the writer (Nickolai V. Vasiliev) states. "In the 1930s a 
similar event [to the Tunguska blast] occurred in the upper flows of the 
Amazon River.  Again, due to it's remoteness the event is known only to a 
small circle of specialists."

I admit I have not read the rest of the book but does anyone know anything 
about this supposed event?  Is anyone here a member of the circle of 
specialists?

-Walter Branch
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