The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens released thermal energy equivalent to a 26 megaton bomb. With very little earthquake. We don't have the means to release so much energy all at once, except in the largest thermonuclear devices (which are no longer in our inventory).
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens released thermal energy equivalent to a 26 megaton bomb. With very little earthquake. We don't have the means to release so much energy all at once, except in the largest thermonuclear devices (which are no longer in our inventory).