User blog:The Christian Nerd/InFAMOUS - Beast destroys Empire City

Premise PTSOXMONKEY99 requested a calc for inFAMOUS in which the city was blown up. Easily calcable.

We see an explosion wipe out Empire City and the surrounding area.

Calc All we need is diameter of the blast. For this, we will compare Empire City to New York City (since it is based on that anyways).

This shows the area affected by the blast.

We know that Manhattan is the smallest of New York's boroughs and is its own separate island, so we will compare it to the smallest island in the screenshot. Manhattan is 21.56 km long.

Comparing the Manhattan-based island to the width of the explosion, we get 134.90 km for a diameter (radius of 67.45 km). We will use this calculator to get value in megatons.

We find that 872 megatons (3.648 x 10^18 Joules) is the minimum option we have for the radius we have described (seen in "Air Blast Radius" for widespread destruction). Maximum is 875 megatons (3.661 x 10^18 Joules)

Tallies Nothing new considering even base level Beast is above this, but still, good supporting feat.

The Beast Blows Stuff Up (Low-End): 3.648 x 10^18 Joules, Mountain level

The Beast Blows Stuff Up (High-End): 3.661 x 10^18 Joules, Mountain level