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To: Finalapproach29er

Earthquake sensors picked it up as a 4.5.


4 posted on 05/24/2009 8:00:46 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar
Looks like another fizzle:

"A reading of 4.0 and 4.2 on the Richter scale would corresponding to a nuclear explosive yield of about 0.5 and 0.9 kt of TNT-equivalent, respectively, according to the above equation. Thus, the most easily obtained estimate of the size of the explosion is 0.5-0.9 kt. This is a yield given for small tactical nuclear warheads formerly in the American arsenal; and is a small fraction of the yield of first tests of other countries (19 kt US, 25 FSU, 25 UK, 60 France, 22 China, 12 India, ~9 Pakistan)."

http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0689HayesKang.html

26 posted on 05/24/2009 8:12:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (If Liberals' GOAL was the Destruction of Western Civilization, would their behavior differ?)
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