The Cando event was an explosion that ocurred in the village of Cando, Spain, in the morning of January 18, 1994. There were no casualties in this incident, which has been described as being like a small Tunguska Event. Cando is a village in northwestern Spain. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Trees felled by the Tunguska blast. ...

Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute. A possible explosion site was established when a local resident called the University of Santiago de Compostela to report an unknown gouge in a hillside close to the village. Up to 200 m³ of terrain was missing and trees were found displaced 100 m down the hill. The Obradoiro façade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela: an all-but-Gothic composition generated entirely of classical details Santiago de Compostela (2003 pop. ... The cubic metre (symbol m³) is the SI derived unit of volume. ... The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...

Opinions are divided about the causes of the explosion. Zdenek Ceplecha of the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic explains the incident might have been a blast of subterranean gases which, removing the topsoil in a sudden explosion, vented into the air. The convective action of such a rising plume would create an electric charge separation sufficient to ignite the gases, accounting for the observed fireball-like observations. The same explanation has been recently circulating about the Tunguska Event, against the old meteor theory. Local residents, however, claim it was a meteor, as an object "the size of a full moon" was seen in the skies of the Spanish region of Galicia. Not surprisingly, the mystery became fertile ground for conspiracy theories that point to military or "alien activities". Trees felled by the Tunguska blast. ... A burst of meteors A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ... The spoken languages are Galician (Galician: Galego or Gallego), the local national language derived from Latin and Spanish (castellano or español), in common with the rest of Spain. ...