How deep of a crater does a nuclear bomb make?

100 m
The resulting crater is 100 m (330 ft) deep with a diameter of about 390 m (1,280 ft).

How big of an area can a nuclear missile destroy?

A 1 megaton nuclear bomb creates a firestorm that can cover 100 square miles. A 20 megaton blast’s firestorm can cover nearly 2500 square miles. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were small cities, and by today’s standards the bombs dropped on them were small bombs.

What is the biggest man made crater on Earth?

The Vredefort crater /ˈfrɪərdəfɔːrt/ is the largest verified impact crater on Earth. It was 160–300 km (99–186 mi) across when it was formed; what remains of it is in the present-day Free State province of South Africa. It is named after the town of Vredefort, which is near its centre.

How big is the crater left by the average nuclear bomb?

The Sedan nuclear test in 1962 left a crater 100 meters deep with a diameter of 390 meters from the detonation of a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 104 kilotons placed 194 meters below ground.

How big was the man made crater in 1962?

The device had an explosive power of 104 kilotons, the equivalent of around eight Hiroshima bombs. The blast displaced more than 12 million tons of soil and created a crater 100 metres deep and 390 metres in diameter – the largest man-made crater in the United States. Nuclear testing reached an all-time high in 1962 (click to enlarge).

How big is the largest crater in the United States?

How big was the crater left by the Trinity bomb?

Trinity was a 20 kiloton blast. The Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs were detonated about 1900 feet from the ground and produced no craters. Underground tests do leave impressive craters. The Sedan 1962 underground test of a 104 kiloton device left a 330′ deep 1280′ wide hole in the earth.