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I'm...still unsure how to handle this.
By this point, we are all aware that Tyranitar walking can crumble mountains, and while we can figure out how powerful crumbling mountains is, I'm still unsure how to calculate the power of an earthquake that can do that.
And I also remembered this tidbit about the moves Earthquake, Magnitude, and Fissure. They do more damage if the Pokemon used Dig, implying that the digging Pokemon is closer to the epicenter of the attack. Due to Dugtrio, we know that Dig can reach up to 60 miles underground. Tectonic plates form about 43 miles deep. So it's quite possible that Pokemon use seismic energy rather than just the radiated waves with the first two moves (and just creates a super large fissure with the last one).
So this begs the question of what would the seismic energy + radiated wave energy be of an earthquake that can crumble mountains, or at least, earthquakes that extend in every direction between 180 and 0 degrees with a radius of 60 miles?
By this point, we are all aware that Tyranitar walking can crumble mountains, and while we can figure out how powerful crumbling mountains is, I'm still unsure how to calculate the power of an earthquake that can do that.
And I also remembered this tidbit about the moves Earthquake, Magnitude, and Fissure. They do more damage if the Pokemon used Dig, implying that the digging Pokemon is closer to the epicenter of the attack. Due to Dugtrio, we know that Dig can reach up to 60 miles underground. Tectonic plates form about 43 miles deep. So it's quite possible that Pokemon use seismic energy rather than just the radiated waves with the first two moves (and just creates a super large fissure with the last one).
So this begs the question of what would the seismic energy + radiated wave energy be of an earthquake that can crumble mountains, or at least, earthquakes that extend in every direction between 180 and 0 degrees with a radius of 60 miles?
