Star Quake Question

[DeathstroketheHedgehog]

In the page for Star Quakes, it is noted to be "potentially Solar System level (if it was a magnitude of 32 on the Richter scale, it should have been equivalent to 6.3×1052 Joules in total)", which is 630 MegaFoe. However, the GBE for a neutron star is faaaaaaaaaaaar lower than that, only roughly 341.55 Foe.

The source of the Magnitude 32 information is literally just "I once calculated the strength of such a starquake, and it would register as magnitude 32 on the Richter scale", and on top of that, a little while later it says "In one-tenth of a second the subsequent blast released something like 2 times 10^46 ergs of energy -- equal to about 50 trillion times the Sun's output during that same period," which is actually consistent with the other High 5-A value we already have for starquakes.

I'm not sure if we should take this Magnitude statement seriously, so I want to hear from anyone else willing to check for themselves. If we come to agreement this could be a possible removal of the 4-B tier of starquakes.

 

[DeathstroketheHedgehog]

Actually, looking back at the page about Black Hole Collision events, two black holes colliding only emit 3.2e49 joules per second, or 320 KiloFoe. That means this 4-B rating for the star quake is not only massively beyond a neutron star's GBE, but it's supposedly nearly 2,000 times more powerful than two black holes colliding.

At first I was iffy, but now I'm 99% percent sure that we can't take this Magnitude 32 seriously. I'll just go ahead and edit the profile.

 

[Antvasima]

You should normally check with some calc group members before making these types of edits.