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Mr. Bambu
Mr. Bambu
Did he stop it? It looks more like he pushed the plates back together after the Earthquake had rended them.

If the former: probably just calculate the energy of the Earthquake itself. He counteracted it, and that seems a relatively safe way of approaching it.

If the latter: KE of the given tectonic plate (seemingly at a staggeringly low speed, but it should still yield a very high number due to the sheer mass of said plate).

Do you know where this takes place?
ByArrow
Mr. Bambu
Mr. Bambu
I think it fits the latter more than the former but as with anything we deal in on this wiki, it is hardly concrete.
ByArrow
Okay, thanks for the help. Can you also help me with something? Which formula can I use to calculate the weight of the tectonic plate?
Mr. Bambu
Mr. Bambu
Well. The plate we'd be dealing with here would be the North American Plate, which has a surface area of 760,000,000 km^2. There's something to be said for the fact that he may not have moved all of it, but that gets into muddy waters.

They're also about 125 km thick. So, our volume is 9.5e19 m^3 for the North American Plate. 2750 kg/m^3 is the standard density for general rock (obviously the composition of tectonic plates), so our mass is 2.6125e23 kg (only about an order of magnitude less than Earth).

It is worthy to note that a source, albeit hazy in reliability, places the mass instead at about 4.07e22 kg. It does so by simply dividing the Earth into approximately equal slices. While this source is not particularly reliable, it sheds some issue on our own calc above: per whatever information they're working with, the estimated mass of our plate is nearly as large as the Earth's lithosphere.

Thus, I reach the conclusion that the result is probably higher than 4.07e22 kg, and probably lower than 2.6125e23 kg. I'd use them both and allow the calc evaluator to decide.
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