Could bomb testing make the world fall apart or cause tsunamis?

Could bomb testing make the world fall apart or cause tsunamis?
30 January 2005

Question

Could bomb testing make the world fall apart or cause tsunamis?

Answer

I think it is very unlikely. The energy needed to cause something like a tsunami is huge, and to make the world fall apart it would need to be even bigger. It might be possible to cause a tsunami if a bomb was planted in a particular place and the Earth's plates moved. This would require considerable planning, so a tsunami shouldn't be caused by bomb testing, unless it was many times bigger than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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