If you think asteroid impacts are just the stuff of action movies, think again.

Since the year 2000, a powerful array of microphones has detected 26 nuclear-sized explosions in the Earth’s atmosphere– each the result of a space rock slamming into our planet.

You can see where and when these impacts occurred, as well as how strong they were, in the video above. The new video was released by the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit that hopes to send a privately funded infrared telescope into space by 2018 to locate as many potentially dangerous asteroids as possible.

Most of us remain blissfully unaware of the pummeling the Earth gets on a regular basis because the force released by most asteroid impacts is absorbed entirely by our atmosphere and rarely causes much damage at ground level.

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