8. The earthquake of 2004 in the Indian Ocean generated 1500 times the energy of the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima.
he energy released on was about 26 megatons of TNT. But this was just on the surface; underground, the energy released was over 9600 gigatons of TNT equivalent, or about 550 million times the energy released at Hiroshima. To give you a better idea, the energy then released would be equal to 370 years of energy use in the U.S. at 2005 levels.
