My and many others current issue with that is two fold:
1) Everyone agrees that the meteor is comparable in size to Seireitei, in damage’s own words “~50%”. Even without calcing, meteor of that size traveling at ablation speeds is leaps and bounds above country level.
2) The current calc uses a ground based explosion formula. I don’t see how you can champion “nothing points to the impact creating seismic shocks that destroy Seireitei” and also support our current calc. Seeing how assuming quakes are caused from a meteor impact is a way less wonky assumption, than assuming the meteor is a ground based explosion.
I never said the ground based explosion is better, cause obviously quakes will be caused by any meteor of a large size hitting the ground
My argument is that
1. you will have to assume that what he was referring to in the destruction is the quake and not the destruction and shockwaves from impact
2. How are we sure a quake of 7.8 magnitude actually hit sereitei?
| Magnitude | Earthquake Effects |
|---|
| 5.5 to 6.0 | Slight damage to buildings and other structures. |
| 6.1 to 6.9 | May cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. |
| 7.0 to 7.9 | Major earthquake. Serious damage. |
| 8.0 or greater | Great earthquake. Can totally destroy communities near the epicenter. |
i think what was shown in the reoi death quake was minor damage so pegged at 5.5 - 6.0
3. And was it ever shown all stated that the buildings were made to specially resist quakes? cause i cant remember anything of such
And my major concern,
and why are we scaling gremmy to the potential quakes the meteor may cause instead of scaling him to the size of the meteor he thought of?
I mean aside from him saying he wound survive "I will be the only one left in the rumbles".
which will be durability
Pixel scaling and using KE gets you 10^26 to 10^27 joules (High 6-A), the meteor formula gets you 10^25 joules (High 6-A), the ground based explosion formula gets you 10^22 joules (6-B). And if we look at the issues with all three methods: Seireitei’s size is inconsistently drawn, you’d have to assume the meteor would create seismic activity, you have to model the meteor off of a ground based explosion (a meteor and a ground based explosion are two different things). Every calc that models the meteor as a meteor is consistent with each other, but the calc that models the meteor as something it isn’t is far off from everything else.
You do not need to assume it will create quakes,
it will definitely create quakes.
But like i said the assumption is that "what gremmy was expecting to obliterate sereitei is the quake and not a big has meteor that already covered half of the town".
Just for a comparison, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was 10s of miles long (~10s of km), and released 10^24 to 10^25 joules of energy. Here we have another ablated meteor that’s 10+ times larger than that meteor, but modeling it as something it’s not (a ground based explosion) to get a country level rating makes sense? If we did the same thing for that Dino killing meteor that we do for Gremmy’s (ground based explosion formula), it would be island level. I think that comparison alone shows that we shouldn’t be using a formula derived for ground based explosions for things other than ground based explosions.
actually the meteor was just 7 miles or 9 miles iirc, u can check for Chicxulub
And to compare the two you will have to bring prove they are traveling at the same speed, cause i am sure they will not be travelling at the same speed, as gremmy meteor appeared from the clouds and started dropping unlike travelling of light years at tens of kilometers per second to hit a planet.
For more clarification, hypothetically, a 1 KM meteor travelling at rel - Sol speed would obliterate a planet on impact.
Speed also have a big role to play, so yes you can not compare the two meteors calc.
