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Should we keep letting countries and/or evil-henchmen test new giga-mega-tiga ton nuclear bombs so close to fault lines?  I'm just asking.

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Vanuatu just got smoked by three earthquakes in just over an hour and part of nine in four hours.This comes about a week after four tropical cyclones and two major earthquakes, with accompanying tsunamis, occurred around the Western Pacific and Southern Asia in  less than 24 hours.


Could be a 2012 thing as well.  Sounds like the new movie with John Cusak has a huge advertising budget.  It's really astonishing, the lengths that Hollywood will go to create a buzz for an upcoming blockbuster ... though maybe it is a sign of the coming apocalypse.



In totally unrelated news, Bangladesh, not known to have nuclear capability, has not fessed up to detonating a 260 giga-mega-tiga ton bomb accidently a few years back. They can't recall when exactly.  But according to a declassified memo to the Secretary of Blowing-Shit- Up, the explosion occured deep in underground cavern somewhere around Sumatra.  Experts speculate that there is mostly likely no connection to the 9.3 magnitude earthquake and the resulting 100 foot waves.  Was Bush having problems around that time? Just asking? 


Interesting fact: Tsar Bomba (code named Ivan, seriously!) is the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated.  Equivalent to 57 mega tons of TNT, it was 10 times the entire amount of explosive used in WWII (including Fat Man and Little Boy).  The test took place Novaya Zemlya, home of over 224 nuclear tests and an excellent place to raise root vegetables.


From Wikipedia:
The largest underground test at Novaya Zemlya took place on September 12, 1973, involving four nuclear devices of 4.2 megatons total yield. Although far smaller in blast power than the Tsar Bomba and other atmospheric tests, the confinement of the blasts underground led to pressures rivaling natural earthquakes. In the case of the September 12, 1973, test, a seismic magnitude of 6.97 on the Richter Scale was reached, setting off an 80 million ton avalanche that blocked two glacial streams and created a lake 2 km in length.


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