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Nuclear detonations can produce extremely powerful seismic activity, and the effects are often felt on instruments designed to monitor earthquakes. And nobody h
by jonnathanson 10y ago
Nuclear detonations can produce extremely powerful seismic activity, and the effects are often felt on instruments designed to monitor earthquakes. And nobody has ever detonated an actual 100-megaton warhead before, or anything close to it. The mere prospect of that detonation is mindboggling.
Take this with a grain of salt, but the Russians claim this bomb can generate a tsunami up to 500m (1,650ft) high, reaching over 900 miles inland.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34797252 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34797252
- gus_massa 10y agoThanks for the link, but I'm suspicious. This other link says that a detonation of 30 kilotons in North Korea produced a seismic activity similar to a 3.5 earthquake. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea-nuclear-bomb-did-not-trigger-earthquake-it-could-make-volcano-erupt-1580581 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea-nuclear-bomb-did-not-tr... A 100 megatons bomb is only 3333 times more powerful, but the scale is logarithmic, 1 more point is 31.6 more powerful. So 3333 is between 2 and 3 more point in the seismic scale. My exact calculation is M = 2/3 log(100000/30) + 3.5 = 5.8 < 6. I don't believe that in can case a very big tsunami.