• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Interesting thought experiment!

    Even a monster motor mounted to bedrock isn’t going to produce the force of tectonic plates. Think of the masses involved.

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      2 days ago

      I kept thinking about this last night and wound up looking it up. Seems like a nuclear bomb could cause one…but only a minor one - smaller than the bomb itself.

      Goes to show just how powerful an earthquake is if even our strongest explosives doesn’t come close!