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		jarek on March 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Video of tsunami in Japan I (morbidly) wonder if it would be possible to set off a tsunami with just the explosion, without necessarily the ground movement. It would seem to me that a lot of the earthquake's energy release would go into shaking the ground. Anyway, the story of that bomb is interesting too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

rbanffy on March 14, 2011 [–]

You could, perhaps, trigger an underwater quake by bombing a fault zone with a large enough nuke (or sequence them as to compound the shock)

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