Thread: How does blast size scale with energy required?
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Old 10-July-2008, 04:46 PM
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It would be devastating to the surface of the planet, but not to the planet as a whole. See if you can find how much energy was released 65 million years ago at Chicxulub.
Good idea, I think I have that here somewhere. Obviously it would be a bad day to be standing half the distance from the epicenter!

Again thank you.

edit to add: most sources are around 100,000 gigatons for the K/T event.
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