Do some research on the web to find the energy release of the following: (a) a 1 megaton nuclear explosion, (b) the yearly electricity consumption in the United States, (c) yearly dissipation of tidal...

Do some research on the web to find the energy release of the following: (a) a 1

megaton nuclear explosion, (b) the yearly electricity consumption in the United

States, (c) yearly dissipation of tidal energy in Earth’s oceans, and (d) the daily

energy release of a typical hurricane. Express all your answers in joules (J) and

compare these numbers to the seismic energy release of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake (see text). Note that the total energy release (including heat generated on

the fault, etc.) of the Sumatra earthquake may be significantly greater than the

seismically radiated energy. This is discussed in Chapter 9.