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jarek
on March 14, 2011
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Video of tsunami in Japan
I (morbidly) wonder if it would be possible to set off a tsunami with just the explosion, without necessarily the ground movement. It would seem to me that a lot of the earthquake's energy release would go into shaking the ground.
Anyway, the story of that bomb is interesting too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
rbanffy
on March 14, 2011
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You could, perhaps, trigger an underwater quake by bombing a fault zone with a large enough nuke (or sequence them as to compound the shock)
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Anyway, the story of that bomb is interesting too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba