On Dec 28, 2004, at 8:09 AM, Mike Hord wrote:

> Extrapolated from that information using Einstein's
> famous equation, we arrive at 9x10^8 joules.
>
> Give or take, that's 2100 Megatons.

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html
says that a 9.0 Earthquake is about 32000 megatons, BTW...

BillW
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