I remember Randall Munroe covering ridiculously-high magnitude earthquakes in What-If once, saying that it would destroy the planet (which, given what else is on What-If, is probably meant literally instead of just "all life is dead and the surface becomes molten lava"). Though I guess a bit of literary exaggeration is still warranted.
I remember Randall Munroe covering ridiculously-high magnitude earthquakes in What-If once, saying that it would destroy the planet (which, given what else is on What-If, is probably meant literally instead of just "all life is dead and the surface becomes molten lava"). Though I guess a bit of literary exaggeration is still warranted.
From the What If book, the Death Star induced a magnitude 15 earthquake on Aalderan.
With a diameter of 60km and its energy equivalent to that of 80 billion Hiroshima-type A-bombs......and fell back immediately afterward as a myriad of meteorites large and small.A supermassive meteorite had fallen on the Earth.Magnitude-15 earthquakes and colossal tsunami, thousands of meters in height......caused chain-reaction catastrophes throughout the world......it exploded the entire Japanese archipelago.The Earth's crust was flung into the stratosphere...
