User blog:TeenAngel101/inFAMOUS Extended Universe: Cole survives Ray Sphere Explosion

This is pretty much just like the original feat in canon, except rather than merely vaporizing, the Ray Sphere destroys six city blocks on a subatomic level.

This happened in Empire City, a city based on real-life New York, so I'm going use the average city block specs on Manhattan, which are 80m x 274m (source). We only need height to get a volume for the explosion.

In this scan, we can see the explosion destroying what is either the Chrysler Building or the Empire State. I'm going to use the Chrysler Building for a lowball. That would make the explosion 319.5m high, at least. Since the explosion subatomized six city blocks, we multiply this by 6 and get 42020640m^3 for the affected volume. That'd be 4.202064e+13 cubic centimeters.
 * V = LxHxW
 * V = 7003440m^3.

Using the standard value for subatomic destruction, the result is 2.2703752e+27 joules, or 542.63 Petatons