It was best not to sail off the coast of Florida this Friday, June 18! The US Navy  carried out a series of stress tests on its giant aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, causing a major shock in the open sea.

The US Navy wanted to verify that its latest $ 5 billion gear was able  to withstand the combat conditions encountered in battle. So she decided to throw 20 tons of explosives a few meters from the ship and observe how the latter took the shock of incredible violence, as you can see in our video at the top of the article.

The explosion was so great that  the United States Geological Surve y  recorded an earthquake measuring 3.9 on the very spot where the explosion took place, about 160 kilometers from the coast. Fortunately, the people of Florida did not feel the shock.

“The US Geological Survey’s seismic activity website lists an ‘experimental explosion’ with a magnitude of 3.9 at 170km east-northeast of Ponce Inlet, Fla.”

The Navy said the tests were “in line with environmental mitigation requirements, respecting known migration patterns of marine life in the test area.”