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A 'teraton' is the equivalent, in SI terms, of being 1.00 x 10^12 tons; 1,000 gigatons; 1,000,000 megatons; 1,000,000,000 kilotons; or 1,000,000,000,000 tons in its entirely expanded form.
The energy released by the explosion of one teraton of TNT, 4.18 10 joules, is equivalent to the energy of an earthquake of magnitude 10 on the Richter Scale, or to the energy of a 20 km rocky meteorite impacting the earth at 25 km/s.

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★ Petaton

★ Gigaton

★ Megaton