Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 week ago240 tons of TNT is 0.24 kT, not 2.4 kT.
Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 week ago240 tons of TNT is 0.24 kT, not 2.4 kT.
mayo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
1500T TNT is equivalent to 15KT and then 240KT is 16% of 1500. Comes out to 2.4KT?
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, 1500 T = 1.5 kT.
mayo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh ya I’ve made a big mess of this. Oops. Thanks for the correction.
I was reading it as 1500TNT is equivalent to a nuke with a 15KT yield. Totally wrong:
nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/orders-of-magnitude