Energy similarity between underground nuclear explosions and naturally occurring earthquakes

The use of computational formulas developed for ordinary chemical explosives to solve applied problems involving the estimation of the parameters of the dynamical processes accompanying underground nuclear explosions were analyzed. The parameters of the debris cone, displacement in the longitudinal loading wave and the computational formulas obtained for ordinary chemical explosives can be used to determine the size of the blast cavity. The character of the change in the stress in a longitudinal compression wave as a result of the detonation of a concentrated charge was also expressed. It was found that there exists an energy similarity between the seismic action of underground nuclear explosions and naturally occurring earthquakes.