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To: NorCalRepub

Interesting Factoid: The amount of energy released during the recent Tsunami was 10,000 larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.


22 posted on 03/12/2005 9:17:57 PM PST by FreedomNeocon ( though)
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To: FreedomNeocon

very good.......most people have no idea of the relative power of nature........living in Calif, I kind of know what the power of an quake is and it would take most of the nukes on earth to approx one.......


23 posted on 03/12/2005 9:20:37 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: FreedomNeocon
The earthquake that generated the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 is estimated to have released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1227_041226_tsunami.html
24 posted on 03/12/2005 9:21:37 PM PST by FreedomNeocon ( though)
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