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akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
That’s about two to three times as large a yield as those use on Japan by the USA. If I am reading this correctly - and there is a great chance that I am not - then a 50 kiloton explosion would yield/release as much energy as little more than a magnitude 5.1 earthquake.
Even if that amount of energy was released inside the mantle, I doubt it would do much. On the surface of the crust, at tectonic plate fissures, where we live, is another story entirely.
Just an educated guess. Funny, ‘cause I’m NOT educated within this field. 🤣
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Even at a tectonic plate boundary, that’s a trivial amount of energy. There are thousands of earthquakes of similar magnitude every year.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And I feel like it’s important context to also explain that the Richter Scale is logarithmically scaled, so a magnitude 6 earthquake is 100 times more than a magnitude 5.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 week ago
But, these fissures at faults are already under stress. Just fracking is enough to lube them up to go off frequently, mostly smaller ones, but there have been a few big ones, including one in Youngstown Ohio almost certainly from deep injection wells to dispose of fracking waste, (that have a 15 percent failure rate.)
Drilling waste is class 1 waste because the shit they put in the fracking fluid, and what it picks up underground (radium, arsenic, etc.) and flowsback to the surface with the gas, but they’ve an exemption from dick cheney’s energy bill where bush let the oil majors and their ilk write the energy policies. But that’s another story.
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Thanks for the clarification! 🙂 Brings back memories from my time in Japan, where we had regular micro quakes. Just enough to make you go “Huh?! What was that? Meh, probably nothing.”