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08-24-2011 , 03:20 PM

#101

Brainwalter

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,652

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pokamastah

East coast earthquake = 3800 tons of TNT detonating
Recent Japanese earthquake = 400 000 000 tons of TNT detonating

Visual of neatly stacked pallets of TNT please.

08-24-2011 , 04:26 PM

#102

grizy

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 20,796

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pokamastah

East coast earthquake = 3800 tons of TNT detonating
Recent Japanese earthquake = 400 000 000 tons of TNT detonating

On this scale, a magnitude 10 earthquake (more than 20x bigger than 8.9) is more than

8,000,000,000 tons of TNT detonating.

Conveniently, the atomic bomb fat man dropped on Nagasaki yielded a blast roughly equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT so magnitude 10 earthquake is like detonating 400,000 atomic bombs.

Yeah, that sounds like Armageddon.

Just random ramblings because I am bored.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brainwalter

Visual of neatly stacked pallets of TNT please.

Last edited by grizy; 08-24-2011 at 04:37 PM.

08-24-2011 , 06:22 PM

#103

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 21,015

5.9 is pretty bad but if bush was still president it would've been a 6.2

08-25-2011 , 12:21 AM

#104

Ahigh

adept

Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 913

First quake "light" now hurricane "light", wtf???? Can't even get natural disaster right...

08-25-2011 , 09:20 AM

#105

swinginglory

banned

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 2,508

Rumor has it the US Geological Survey has given the naming rights to the fault that caused the D.C. quake to President Obama. In typical fashion, he decided to name it, "Bush's Fault".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PIdWdw15U

08-25-2011 , 09:28 AM

#106

Borodog

Enemy of the State

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 25,491

Aftershock last night at about 1am. Was up feeding the baby and the house shook twice over the course of about ten or 15 seconds. News said it was a 4.something.

There was another 4.x a few months back in the middle of the night, and another one last July. They seem to be inreasing in frequency, but who knows. IANA geologist.

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