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Nuclear bomb test or earthquake? How we tell the difference

Steve Mould, 8 min, 135.3K views, Oct 26, 2017

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The first 200 people to sign up at https://brilliant.org/stevemould/ will get 20% off an annual premium subscription. I use a slinky to show how we we're able to tell the difference between earthquakes and an underground nuclear bomb tests Visit my blog here: http://stevemould.com Follow me on twitter here: http://twitter.com/moulds Buy nerdy maths things here: http://mathsgear.co.uk