It was one of the most intense explosions in Earth's atmosphere in three years, and yet it took weeks for anyone to talk about it. NASA announced last week that back at the beginning of February, a meteor exploded over the Atlantic Ocean. Turns out, it was one for the record books.

The fireball shot through the sky over the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Brazil on Feb 6. As the meteor disintegrated, it released an, the BBC reported. As IFL Science points out, that'sdetonated in Hiroshima.

According to NASA's Fireball and Bolide Reports, a meteor of this magnitude hadn't entered our atmosphere in 3 years. Most fireballs release barely one kiloton of energy, let alone 13 kilotons.

Indeed, it was thefireball in 2013, Ron Baalke of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory tweeted on Feb. 18.

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But with no one there to see it out in the middle of the ocean, it received much less attention than the fireball in Chelyabinsk.

"Had it happened over a populated area," Slate writer Phil Plait wrote in his take on the recent meteor, "but I don’t think it would’ve done any real damage."

According to the Epoch Times,, we just don't see them because they don't make it far enough without disintegrating.

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Highway from Kazakhstan to Chelyabinsk, Russia

A dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 shows a meteorite contrail. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains, causing sharp explosions and injuring dozens of people. (AP Photo/Nasha Gazeta, www.ng.kz)