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Somewhere I saw "theories" that Russia can simply aim several of those at Yellowstone and then let nature take care of the rest. Or just off East Coast and let

• jandrese 9y ago
  That sounds pretty dicey to me, and there are no do-overs in global thermonuclear war. Even the largest tsunami ever wouldn't make it past the Appalacan Mountains, so I really don't know what they are thinking about there. My guess is that even our biggest nuclear weapons are puny compared to a modest earthquake, so the Taunami plan probably won't work very well.
  • dvtv75 9y ago
    "Even the largest tsunami ever wouldn't make it past the Appalacan Mountains" I've read that the impactor that created the Chicxulub caused a megatsunami that washed over the Rocky Mountains, although I can't find the article now. Instead, I found one that talked about a tsunami 305 meters tall, and a wiki page about megatsunamis that talks about it being just 100 meters tall. Interestingly, further down it claims that, had the impactor struck deep ocean, the tsunami would have been 4600 meters tall. That's about the straight-line distance from my home to my work. Neat, and utterly horrifying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#List_of_megatsunamis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#List_of_megatsunam...
    • jandrese 9y ago
      Neat, but most of those required dinosaur killer sized asteroid impacts. Mere hydrogen bombs aren't going to cut it.