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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

An explosion or explosions enough to set off a fault would be quite noticeable. A nuke has radiation that would quickly be sensed. And just predicting fault movement is still fairly impossible much less knowing how to cause fault movement.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You wouldn’t detect any radiation if they detonated nukes near an underwater faultline. Water blocks radiation really well. They would notice it via seismic sensors since earthquakes look different than nukes when it comes to seismic waves.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Oh... You'd notice it pretty quick when all the radioactive remnants from the bomb are vaporized into fine dust and spread out into the ocean in a constantly spreading plume.

    I bet people would notice real quick.

    Edit: autocorrect had turned "vaporized" into "baptized", that made for a real confusing sentence... 🙄

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