By Natali Moss
I wrote that it is impossible to cause a giant tsunami with an underwater nuclear explosion - most of the energy of an underwater explosion goes to the oscillation and evaporation of water. A steam-gas bubble forms under the water, which begins to pulsate. During each pulsation, the bubble rapidly loses energy. A huge column of water (sultan) is thrown to the surface, which looks very formidable, but actually looks like rain. A colossal tsunami is not generated by an underwater explosion.
This is proven by trials when they were not yet banned. I will add that a real tsunami occurs when an underwater earthquake moves a tectonic plate — this is a mass shift weighing trillions of tons. For example, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a 9. 1 magnitude earthquake. Then the 1,300 km long fault moved 15 meters, and the released energy was roughly equivalent to 550 megatons of TNT equivalent. As a result, there were waves up to 30 meters high near the coast.
And what is important, the duration of an earthquake is minutes (the fault opens slowly), and the area of influence is thousands of square kilometers. And in the case of a nuclear explosion, we are talking about milliseconds and a point explosion, only five percent of which go to create a surge, not a tsunami. What I really don't understand is why Russian propaganda scares the common man with made-up threats when Russia has actual intercontinental nuclear missiles. This is a real threat.
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