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Turkey's earthquake was so strong, its energy could power New York for 4 days, seismologist says | Business Insider

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The energy released by the earthquake was 32 petajoules, Januka Attanayake told the New York Times, equivalent to nearly 8 million tons of TNT. | BISouthAfrica

That amount of energy is enough to generate 8.88 million megawatts continuously for one hour. It's also equivalent to the energy released by nearly 7.25 million tonnes of TNT.

The Times noted that another seismologist, Renato Solidum, told the outlet in 2013 that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake created as much energy as 32 of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima. The local magnitude scale, also known as the Richter scale, is logarithmic, meaning each time the magnitude goes up by 1, the energy released by the earthquake is stronger by around 31.6 times.like one that struck the same region in Turkey in January, 2020Monday's earthquake occurred on the East Anatolian Fault, where only three earthquakes of magnitude 6.

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