1 gigatonne (Gt) = 1,000,000,000,000 or 1012 kg
Megaton and ton are different things: megaton is a unit of enery; ton a unit of weight. A megaton is the energy released from detonation of TNT. A ton is 2,000 pounds.
"giga" is a prefix used to indicate "billion" or 109. 1 gigatonne = 109 tonnes, or 1,000,000,000 tonnes
One million of them.
Let's remove the term "ton" from the words. Then we're left with Mega and Kilo. Mega is a shortened term for 1,000,000 and Kilo is a shortened term for 1,000. Therefore 1 Mega ÷ 1 Kilo = 1,000 Kilotons in 1 megaton.
a megaton
* Earthquake Richter 5.0 = 32 kilotons nuclear weapon, like was used at Nagasaki * Earthquake Richter 6.0 = 1 megaton nuclear weapon * Earthquake Richter 7.0 = 32 megaton nuclear weapon * Earthquake Richter 7.1 = 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested * Earthquake Richter 8.0 = 1 gigaton nuclear weapon, much larger than anything ever made
A gigaton is a explosion that equalls to 1 BILLIONE tonz of tnt!
The gigaton is a measure of blast force, equivalent to a billion tons of TNT. The largest weapon ever made, the 50 megaton (million tons of TNT) Czar Bomba, has less than one hundredth of this.
a megaton is bigger..
A gigaton is 1000 megatons so it would be destroy an an area the size of Louisiana. But of course there is no such thing as a gigaton for bombs. IN FACT, there are already 1+ gigaton nuclear weapons. A 1 GT bomb would destroy an area the size of Texas, just with the expansive wave. A 90 GT bomb could change the planet trajectory.
Megaton Shotblast was created in 2001.
Megaton Man was created in 1984.
A megaton is one million tons (2,000,000,000 pounds).
The ship weighed almost one megaton.
1 gigaton is equal to 1000000000000000 grams. that's 15 zeroes after the 1 so in scientific notation that would be 1 x 10^15
Olivier Megaton's birth name is Olivier Fontana.