<Li> 3.08802 × 10 foot pounds </Li> <Li> 1.162 × 10 kilowatt hours </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Megatons of TNT </Th> <Th> Energy (Wh) </Th> <Th> Description </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6988100000000000000 ♠ 1 × 10 (i.e. 1 gram of TNT) </Td> <Td> 1.162 Wh </Td> <Td> ≈ 1 food Calorie (large calorie), which is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6991100000000000000 ♠ 1 × 10 (i.e. 1 kilogram of TNT) </Td> <Td> 1.162 kWh </Td> <Td> Under controlled conditions one kilogram of TNT can destroy (or even obliterate) a small vehicle . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6992100000000000000 ♠ 1 × 10 </Td> <Td> 11.62 kWh </Td> <Td> The approximate radiant heat energy released during 3 - phase, 600 V, 100 kA arcing fault in a 0.5 m × 0.5 m × 0.5 m (20 in × 20 in × 20 in) compartment within a 1 - second period . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6992120000000000000 ♠ 1.2 × 10 </Td> <Td> 13.94 kWh </Td> <Td> Amount of TNT used (12 kg) in Coptic church explosion in Cairo, Egypt on December 11, 2016 that left 25 dead </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6994100000000000000 ♠ 1 × 10 (i.e. 1 ton of TNT)--6995440000000000000 ♠ 44 × 10 </Td> <Td> 1.16--51.14 MWh </Td> <Td> Conventional bombs yield from less than one ton to FOAB's 44 tons . The yield of a Tomahawk cruise missile is equivalent to 500 kg of TNT, or approximately 0.5 tons . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6994189999999999999 ♠ 1.9 × 10 </Td> <Td> 2.90 MWh </Td> <Td> The television show MythBusters used 2.5 tons of ANFO to make "homemade" diamonds . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6996500000000000000 ♠ 5 × 10 </Td> <Td> 581 MWh </Td> <Td> A real 0.5 - kilotonne - of - TNT (2.1 TJ) charge at Operation Sailor Hat . If the charge were a full sphere, it would be 1 kilotonne of TNT (4.2 TJ). 500 tons of TNT (5 by 10 m (17 by 34 ft)) awaiting detonation at Operation Sailor Hat . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6997100000000000000 ♠ 1 × 10 (1 kiloton of TNT)--6997200000000000000 ♠ 2 × 10 </Td> <Td> 1.16--2.32 GWh </Td> <Td> Estimated yield of the Oppau explosion that killed more than 500 at a German fertilizer factory in 1921 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6997230000000000000 ♠ 2.3 × 10 </Td> <Td> 2.67 GWh </Td> <Td> Amount of solar energy falling on 4,000 m (1 acre) of land in a year is 9.5 TJ (2,650 MWh) (an average over the Earth's surface). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6997300000000000000 ♠ 3 × 10 </Td> <Td> 3.49 GWh </Td> <Td> The Halifax Explosion in 1917 was the accidental detonation of 3,000 tons of TNT . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6997400000000000000 ♠ 4 × 10 </Td> <Td> 9.3 GWh </Td> <Td> Minor Scale, a 1985 United States conventional explosion, using 4,744 tons of ANFO explosive to provide a scaled equivalent airblast of an eight kiloton (33.44 TJ) nuclear device, is believed to be the largest planned detonation of conventional explosives in history . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6998150000000000000 ♠ 1.5 × 10--6998200000000000000 ♠ 2 × 10 </Td> <Td> 17.4--23.2 GWh </Td> <Td> The Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, exploded with an energy of about 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ), and the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, exploded with an energy of about 20 kilotons of TNT (84 TJ). The modern nuclear weapons in the United States arsenal range in yield from 0.3 kt (1.3 TJ) to 1.2 Mt (5.0 PJ) equivalent, for the B83 strategic bomb . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 1.16 TWh </Td> <Td> The energy contained in one megaton of TNT (4.2 PJ) is enough to power the average American household for 103,000 years . The 30 Mt (130 PJ) estimated upper limit blast power of the Tunguska event could power the same average home for more than 3,100,000 years . The energy of that blast could power the entire United States for 3.27 days . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 3.5 TWh </Td> <Td> The total energy of all explosives used in World War II, including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs, is estimated to have been three megatons of TNT . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 8.6 </Td> <Td> 10 TWh </Td> <Td> The energy released by a typical tropical cyclone in one minute, primarily from water condensation . Winds constitute 0.25% of that energy . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 21.5 </Td> <Td> 25 TWh </Td> <Td> The complete conversion of 1 kg of matter into pure energy would yield the theoretical maximum (E = mc) of 89.8 petajoules, which is equivalent to 21.5 megatons of TNT . No such method of total conversion as combining 500 grams of matter with 500 grams of antimatter has yet been achieved . In the event of proton--antiproton annihilation, approximately 50% of the released energy will escape in the form of neutrinos, which are almost undetectable . Electron--positron annihilation events emit their energy entirely as gamma rays . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 24 </Td> <Td> 28 TWh </Td> <Td> Approximate total yield of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 25, 50, 100 </Td> <Td> 29 TWh, 58 TWh, 116 TWh </Td> <Td> During the Cold War, the United States developed hydrogen bombs with maximum theoretical yields of 25 megatons of TNT (100 PJ). The Soviet Union developed a prototype weapon, nicknamed the Tsar Bomba, which was tested at 50 Mt (210 PJ), but had a maximum theoretical yield of 100 Mt (420 PJ). The effective destructive potential of such a weapon varies greatly, depending on such conditions as the altitude at which it is detonated, the characteristics of the target, the terrain, and the physical landscape upon which it is detonated . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 26.3 </Td> <Td> 30.6 TWh </Td> <Td> Megathrust earthquakes 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake released record M surface rupture energy, or potential for damage at 26.3 megatons of TNT (110 PJ). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 200 </Td> <Td> 232 TWh </Td> <Td> The total energy released by the eruption of Mt . Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 540 </Td> <Td> 628 TWh </Td> <Td> The total energy produced worldwide by all nuclear testing and combat combined, from the 1940s till now is about 540 megatons . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1,460 </Td> <Td> 1.69 PWh </Td> <Td> The total global nuclear arsenal is about 15,000 nuclear warheads with a destructive capacity of around 1460 megatons or 1.460 gigatons (1,460 million tons) of TNT . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 62,500 </Td> <Td> 73 PWh </Td> <Td> The total solar energy received by Earth per minute is 440 exajoules . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 875,000 </Td> <Td> 1,000 PWh </Td> <Td> Approximate yield of the last eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 6,000,000 = 7006600000000000000 ♠ 6 × 10 </Td> <Td> 6,973 PWh </Td> <Td> The estimated energy at impact when the largest fragment of Comet Shoemaker--Levy 9 struck Jupiter is equivalent to 6 million megatons (6 trillion tons) of TNT . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7006932000000000000 ♠ 9.32 × 10 </Td> <Td> 10,831 PWh </Td> <Td> The energy released in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami was over 200,000 times the surface energy and was calculated by the USGS at 7022390000000000000 ♠ 3.9 × 10 joules, slightly less than the 2004 Indian Ocean quake . This is equivalent to 9,320 gigatons of TNT, or approximately 600 million times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7006956000000000000 ♠ 9.56 × 10 </Td> <Td> 11,110 PWh </Td> <Td> Megathrust earthquakes record huge M values, or total energy released . The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake released 9,560 gigatons TNT equivalent . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7008100000000000000 ♠ 1 × 10 </Td> <Td> 116,222 PWh </Td> <Td> The approximate energy released when the Chicxulub impact caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago was estimated to be equal to 100 teratons (i.e. 100 exagrams or approximately 220.462 quadrillion pounds) of TNT . That is roughly 8 billion times stronger than each of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the most energetic event on the history of Earth for hundreds of millions of years, far more powerful than any volcanic eruption, earthquake or firestorm . Such an explosion annihilated everything within a thousand miles of the impact in a split second . Such energy is equivalent to that needed to power the whole Earth for several centuries . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7015597200000000000 ♠ 5.972 × 10 </Td> <Td> 6.94 × 10 Wh </Td> <Td> The explosive energy of a quantity of TNT the mass of Earth . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7015789000000000000 ♠ 7.89 × 10 </Td> <Td> 9.17 × 10 Wh </Td> <Td> Total solar output in all directions per day . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7021198000000000000 ♠ 1.98 × 10 </Td> <Td> 2.3 × 10 Wh </Td> <Td> The explosive energy of a quantity of TNT the mass of the Sun . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7028239999999999999 ♠ 2.4 × 10--7028479999999999999 ♠ 4.8 × 10 </Td> <Td> 2.8--5.6 × 10 Wh </Td> <Td> A type 1a supernova explosion gives off 1--7044200000000000000 ♠ 2 × 10 joules of energy, which is about 2.4 to 4.8 hundred billion yottatons (24 to 48 octillion (2.4--7028479999999999999 ♠ 4.8 × 10) megatons) of TNT, equivalent to the explosive force of a quantity of TNT over a trillion (10) times the mass of the planet Earth . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7030240000000000000 ♠ 2.4 × 10--7030480000000000000 ♠ 4.8 × 10 </Td> <Td> 2.8--7042560000000000000 ♠ 5.6 × 10 Wh </Td> <Td> The largest type of supernova observed, gamma - ray bursts (GRBs) release more than 10 joules of energy . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 7032130000000000000 ♠ 1.3 × 10 </Td> <Td> 7044150000000000000 ♠ 1.5 × 10 Wh </Td> <Td> A merger of two black holes, first observation of gravitational waves, released 7047530000000000000 ♠ 5.3 × 10 joules </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Megatons of TNT </Th> <Th> Energy (Wh) </Th> <Th> Description </Th> </Tr>

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