Timeline for Can Russia's Poseidon nuclear underwater drone create a 500 meter tidal wave?
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| May 17, 2022 at 12:40 | comment | added | bukwyrm | your assumption seems to be that an explosion, if it happens at sufficient depth, will uniformly lift the water above it ... and keep it lifted? a TIDAL 'wave' is a, for most purposes, permanent, rise of the water level, not a temporary one. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 12:16 | comment | added | stevec | @FluidCode the choice of the deeper waters was intentional, since I think we want to know if the tidal wave is possible (not just whether it's likely). I agree with your implication (that it would in practice be used as close to mainland as possible) but I think in order to thoroughly answer the question, the idea of a detonation in deeper waters should not be ruled out, as tidal waves have been known to travel thousands of km. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 10:42 | comment | added | FluidCode | More than 300 kilometres from Ireland and more than 400 km from Britain. Otherwise shallow waters that could not contain an underwater explosion most of it would end in a vertical vapour jet. You had a good idea to post that picture, but the interpretation can be a little bit different. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 3:29 | comment | added | stevec | @Mark I reworded. Hopefully there are some physicists here who know more about it. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 3:29 | history | edited | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2022 at 3:26 | comment | added | stevec | @Mark thinking about it more, I know if the sea floor acts like a ramp, it will increase the size, but in this case it could be more like a cliff (so it might actually stop a lot of the wave?).The seafloor is a very interesting aspect, but I don't really know how to interpret it. Hopefully someone else does. | |
| May 5, 2022 at 3:25 | comment | added | Mark | Would it? A true tsunami (one caused by an earthquake or a subsea landslide) might, but it's unclear if an underwater explosion will even produce a tsunami. | |
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| S May 5, 2022 at 3:20 | history | answered | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |