A gigantic asteroid could wipe out major parts of England and kill several thousands of people within the next 85 years, warn scientists.

A team of experts at the University of Southampton recently developed a software that could predict the impact of 'corridors' of known asteroids and calculates the risk to communities if they struck.

The team stated that although UK is not directly under an asteroid path, but it is at high risk from asteroid impacts that will take place in the Atlantic Ocean and North Sea that could trigger devastating Tsunamis.

PhD student Clemens Rumpf who developed the software called 'Armor' said he hope that the software will help organizations like the United Nations to decide whether to evacuate communities or send spacecraft to intercept deadly objects.

"We have discovered around 13,000 asteroids and around 500 of them have a chance of hitting Earth. We can now calculate where they could impact and the damage that would be caused so that we could get evacuation plans in order", he said.

Furthermore, when an asteroid strikes one of the biggest problems which come forward is tsunami. And Britain is an island with lots of coastline, and lots of people living therefore there the risk is higher there.

The new maps showed a wide asteroid risk zone running through Europe, passing directly over Scandinavia, Germany, France and Spain. The map showed US is largely unaffected, although Florida and Louisiana could be hit. South Australia is particularly at risk, shows map.

The team researchers combined the asteroid impact probability distribution with the Earth population map to produce the global asteroid impact risk distribution. It showed that south-east Britain is one of the most at-risk areas of the world.