Teraton

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A teraton is the equivalent, in SI terms, of being 1.00×10¹² tons; 1,000 gigatons; 1,000,000 megatons; 1,000,000,000 kilotons; or 1,000,000,000,000 tons (one trillion tons) in its entirely expanded form.

The energy released by the explosion of one teraton of TNT, 4.18 10×10²¹ joules, is equivalent to the energy of an earthquake of magnitude 10 on the Richter Scale, or to the energy of a 2 km rocky meteorite impacting the earth at 25 km/s.

[edit] See also

• TNT equivalent
• Petaton
• Gigaton