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I doubt a typical person can describe the effect of one ton of TNT with any accuracy. I'll give it a try though: 2 meter deep and 6 meter wide crater in typica

I doubt a typical person can describe the effect of one ton of TNT with any accuracy. I'll give it a try though: 2 meter deep and 6 meter wide crater in typical soil, death due to shockwave out to 150m, death likely due to shrapnel out to 300m, buildings destroyed out to 300m, audible from 10 km. From here: https://unsaferguard.org/un-saferguard/blast-damage-estimation https://unsaferguard.org/un-saferguard/blast-damage-estimati... 26 meters fatal distance, 83 or 142 meters buildings destroyed My estimates are more appropriate for a 20-30 ton explosion, it seems.

dylan604 4y ago
You think the typical person can tell the effect of whatever value in terajoules would be? At least the typical person would know that dynamite/TNT is an explosive causing damage and that can be extrapolated in one's mind the effect of 1000 tons of TNT would be much larger and so forth.
- rcxdude 4y ago
  No, the point is can't do it with kilotons otherwise. but at least terajoules are consistent with other units of energy. If there's no familiar reference point then why use random units?