Well.  Nice thought on blowing up Florida... always been too hot.  You should check it out in Orlando in August... now that's hot and humid.  But anyways I digress...

And then there's Florida.

It isn't there anymore.

At least not as people knew it.

And not by that name.

The Miami where I was born, raised, and returned to raise my son is
gone. It is now at the bottom of the South Florida Sea, itself a
poignant reminder of what happened. Undersea exploration teams have
mapped the ruins of southern Florida and discovered what most people
already knew.

Florida isn't there any more.

South Florida Sea?  I didn't get it at first but I do now.  Where Florida was, is now the sea, HOWEVER.  What about the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean?  i am inclined to believe that it would become part of one of them.

The huge blast--which was calculated to be millions of times stronger as
the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima--sent a shock wave rippling
across Florida, destroying everything in it's path

That should be "The huge blast--which was calculated to be millions of times stronger THAN the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima..."

I don't think it would be possible for the bomb to be that strong and the earth to still stand, or to not have a huge cracking crater in it.  The amount of power you described is pretty much the US or Russia's nuclear arsenal (all of it)...which has got enough power to as they as...turn the surface of the earth 74 times.  What you describe concentrated in one place would probably do much worse that just blow Florida (a limestone entity which is crumbling anyways) off the map.

In less than a year, Walt Disney World will reopen after being virtually
destroyed during the destruction of Florida. Disney has undertaken the
task of rebuilding not only the theme parks and hotels at the resort,
but also rebuilding the roads, airport, and infrastructure that was
destroyed in ninety-nine.

Disney World is in Kissimee, a suburb of Orlando.  Orlando is located almost dead center in the penninsula part of Florida (actually a little north-east of center).  The blast you desribed would have blown Disney World to nothing.  Not virtually, it would have been totally by your description, I just imagine only the "pan handle" of Florida remaining, which leave no Orlando.

There aren't much in the way of major roads/highways, nor airports to rebuild in the "pan handle" (northern Florida)... rather rural. major airports are Miami and Orlando, then Tampa and Jacksonville.

Most of southern Florida is now under water. The few fragments of the
former Florida Keys that survived are now barren rocks jutting above the
ocean's surface. No one lives there. No one wants to. The recently
renamed Florida Memorial Keys will now only remind people how far south
Florida used to extend.

Oh.  What about Cuba?  If this thing went down to the keys Cuba would take a bit of this too..being only 90 miles away.

Not long after that, the Second Monolith exploded and destroyed a
sizable area of north-western Tokyo. Almost like a chain reaction, the
Third Monolith followed suit and destroyed a desert canyon that was
never on any maps to begin with.

Just the northwest area?   Tokyo has a huge population, but it really isn't physically so big.  All the people fit by building up and down.  Hell the American incindiary bombing during world war II destroyed most of the city.  Any major explosions would start a fire, and most housing in japan, particularly old housing is mostly wood....

J
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