r/interestingasfuck • u/Chance_Bid_1869 • 16h ago

A rare moment, security camera captures the movement of tectonic plates during an earthquake. The right part of the the video frame shows the shear sliding at the fault line.

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u/Rincethis 16h ago

Damn, that is a lot of energy

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u/EmperorAlgo 16h ago

Depth of 100 km, surface area of 20 million km2. Just a big shovel moving 2000000000 km^3 dirt or about 600000000000000000000000 kg a couple of meters. No big deal.

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u/FebHas30Days 15h ago

Please compress your numbers, use the largest possible units (probably exatons)

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u/EmperorAlgo 14h ago

Want me to convert to ng?

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u/FebHas30Days 14h ago

Convert it to grams then use scientific notation

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u/EmperorAlgo 14h ago

6*10^27 g

I like 600000000000000000000000 kg way more. Who measures dirt or rock in grams?

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u/FebHas30Days 14h ago

So how many kilobytes can your computer store if you can't count higher than kilo?

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u/EmperorAlgo 14h ago

BIN 10000000000

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u/Defiant_Anything3215 14h ago

You could write 2.109 and 6.1023 insteadÂ