6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Simulated by Underground Nuclear Explosion!

This guy has a better write up on it than me, but mine is a newer upload so it’s a little higher in quality. Cannikin (5 Megaton Nuclear Device Amchitka, Alaska). Excerpt from “Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero“. Mind you, the footage is directly above the epicenter, whereas the epicenter of most earthquakes (like the one in Japan) are like a mile or more below the ground and a few miles off-shore. (Don’t quote me on that, though). I don’t recall how deep