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Just if you're interested, it appears it did. 23,000 hiroshima bombs worth of energy: http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2004/12/1227_041226_tsunami.htm

• lmm 13y ago
  > From what I can tell that's a lot more than the global supply. Where are you getting that from? Wikipedia says 17,000 nukes (4,100 active), and IIRC modern weapons tend to have ~30x the energy of the one that was dropped on Hiroshima.
• dalke 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_an... quotes it as 26 megatons of surface energy, and 9,600 gigatons (or 550 million Hiroshima bomb) of total energy. Hiroshima was about 15 kT, so your number gives 345 megatons. Tsar Bomba was about 50 Mt, which is more than the energy of the tsunami. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent , "The total global nuclear arsenal is about 30,000 nuclear warheads with a destructive capacity of 5,000 megatons or 5 gigatons".