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Good question.
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I'll see what I can find out. I'll have to scroll back to the original source. Might be based on the seismic? Kirikiri might have the source.

Edit, a 5.7 is just under a megaton: https://cdn.citl.illinois.edu/courses/KINES401/Lesson1_lectures/Lecture1_P3/web_data/file9.htm

Edit: so it appears they may have been basing it on the VEI, volcanic explosivity index. This is sort of a debated scale. see https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/biggest-bangs/

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index

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