Impact Energy Comparisons
The impacts which created the Barringer Crater or the Tunguska event are estimated to be in the 3–10 megaton range, corresponding to Torino scale 8. The biggest hydrogen bomb ever exploded, the Tsar Bomba, was around 50 megatons.
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was the equivalent of roughly 200 megatons.
The Chicxulub impact, believed by many to be a significant factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs, has been estimated at 100,000,000 (108) megatons.
Read more about this topic: Torino Scale
Famous quotes containing the words impact, energy and/or comparisons:
“Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“But often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)