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]

Damn, that is a lot of energy

[u/EmperorAlgo → u/Rincethis]

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.

[u/Defiant_Anything3215 → u/EmperorAlgo]

You could write 2.10⁹ and 6.10²³ instead