Well, let's see. It's probably a small country. That means Europe. I know there are a number of impact craters in the Baltic states, so I'm going to go with Estonia.

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Carolina Bays country?

That's the country I was thinking of.

I'm not sure what the correct answer is. According to the Impact Database, there are four in Estonia. That's 4/45,226 km² = 8.8x10^-5.

Finland has 10/338,145 km² = 2.96x10^-5, which is smaller.

Any advance on Estonia?

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According to the database, there's only one impact crater in that region (Chesapeake Bay)!

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Carolina Bays pseudo-impacts

If you counted all thousands of them, the US would end up the winner!

2000/9826630 = 2 x 10^-4

Since a number of my ancestors come from that area, I was aware of that bit of info from a long time ago. Pretty sure Estonia uses it as part of promoting tourism.

For the next geological question, I will defer to chrissy, who's due a go at this.

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If your talking square mileage, then australia has the most impact zones.

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Eroica's question was

"What country has the greatest number of impact craters per unit area?"

In other words, which country has the greatest density of impact craters.

Australia has 26 impact craters (Thanks for the link, Eroica! Fascinating information.). It has an area of 7,741,220 km² or 2,988,888 sq mi, which is one impact crater every 297,739 km² or one impact crater every 114,957 sq mi.

Estonia has 4 impact craters. It has an area of 45,226 km² or 17,413 sq mi, which is one impact crater every 11306.5 km² or one impact crater every 4353 sq mi, a much higher density than Australia or apparently anywhere else.

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Made your point......................

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I better word this right to try and prevent fisty cuffs!

I want to make this a three parter ok!


1.Where and when did the DEADLIEST EARTHQUAKE occur?

2.How many PEOPLE died?

3.Where were they living in to make it more dangerous?

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1. TANGSHAN in NE CHina 3.42 AM July 28th 1976

2. Over 240,000 dead

3. In buildings not designed to withstand quakes, as this was not considered to be a quake zone. BTW over 160,000 other people were injured

1. No
2. No
3. No

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yes, yes yes


http://history1900s.about.com/od/hor...a/tangshan.htm

OK you probably mean Sanshi China 1556 January 880,000 killed but can you trust those figures, even in civilised China in those days?

1. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake

2. 830,000

3. Artificial caves

Confession: I Googled it

Guess JMV's answer is fuller. But I question the statistics of those days.

What do you think I did?

1. was a year later but I will let you have that one
2.yes.
3.HMMMMM! more info from that please!

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Wikipedia says January 23rd 1556.

The caves, called yaodongs, were dug into sides of soft soil hills or cliffs in Loess Plateau. Much of the local population lived in these caves. The earthquake caused landslides that destroyed the caves.

correct your go JMV

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Thanks.

1. What impact crater was found in the early 1980's under a major estuary entrance?

2. When was the crater formed?