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Nukes can be comparable to small earthquakes. This fault doesn't even have small quakes, it's locked so tight.
by phkahler 4y ago
Nukes can be comparable to small earthquakes. This fault doesn't even have small quakes, it's locked so tight.
- nullc 4y agohttps://www.math.wichita.edu/~richardson/earthquake.html https://www.math.wichita.edu/~richardson/earthquake.html says a magnitude 9 earthquake is equivalent to 189 MT-tnt, so the largest atomic bomb detonated by mankind would be the energetic equivalent of an 8.6 magnitude earthquake. But it's not really a fair comparison, since the atomic bomb is fast and probably wouldn't couple its energy into the earth particularly well compared to an earthquake.