Breaking - Artificial Earthquake Detected in North Korea

Breaking - Artificial Earthquake Detected in North Korea

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Breaking on Yonhap.com.

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Could this be the Nuclear Test we've been waiting for? If I recall, the last two nuclear tests were identified as an artificial earthquake. Also, it appears that North Korea has threatened to launch long-range rockets as well. Looks like things are sitting up on the Korean Peninsula.

Interesting times indeed.

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Could be. It's breaking news on CNN right now - no article to link to yet. Will update when they release an article. I wonder how big it was?

Here's a small article from wral.com here
USGS Reports 4.9 quake. Nuclear North Korea eh? Not good.

Link to article on CNN

In the quakewatch app it is reported a 4.9 quake 34 minutes ago in north korea

reply to post by spark9576


It was only a 5.1

abcnews.go.com...
was just gonna post this
snf

I guess my question is, how do they know if it's an artificial earthquake?

reply to post by spark9576


North Korea Quake link (USGS)

There's the link to the USGS Earthquake Map for this quake.

Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to post by spark9576

 

It was only a 5.1

The issue here is not the magnitude of the quake, the issue is that the quake was originiated by an underground nuclear test blast.

Gotta hand it to the North Koreans....

They mean what they say and say what they mean.

Kim Jong Un said a test was coming and here it is.

Is it just me, or is a man made explosion that registers as a 4.8 probably something pretty big. Nuclear accident, or successful nuclear test?

Will be intersting to see how the test went. That might be a game changer.

Originally posted by SpaDe_
Is it just me, or is a man made explosion that registers as a 4.8 probably something pretty big.

Nuclear accident, or successful nuclear test?

An accident would mean it didn't explode.. I call successful test..

On the plots explosions don't have a ramp up to the wave.. They just start off at 4.9 or whatever they are saying it is.. That's how you tell if it's a quake of not.

Just GREAT! Unreal.

South Korea is giving AID in the form of FOOD for starving North Korea.

If this is a Nuclear Test...and it probably is...South Korea will stop AID shipments.

North Korea will throw a temper tantrum and start shelling some South Korean Island or town.

If that happens South Korea has already warned North Korea it will strike back this time.

If that happens you can BET the North will strike back even harder.

If THAT happens the U.S. will probably get involved.

If THAT HAPPENS...China will get all pissed off and make threats.

IF THAT HAPPENS...North Korea will be enbolden and be even more Militarily Agressive.

If...that happens...the United States will have to make a choice...one no one will like.

Split Infinity

Tons of information coming across the Yonhap news website right now.

english.yonhapnews.co.kr...

Originally posted by SpaDe_
Is it just me, or is a man made explosion that registers as a 4.8 probably something pretty big.

Nuclear accident, or successful nuclear test?

Me thinks if we see more of these with more frequency, we can RULE OUT accidents.

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my guess would be that it set off sensors nearby but that sensors further away didnt experience the type of movement they should have because its superficial movement (you dont have one plate moving against another which would create kind of a ripple effect)
completely ignorant as to how they would go about that but that my guess

Here is a link to the Google Maps (Satellite) of the area of the earthquake. This is approximated, but relatively close. Do they have some sort of underground bunker in the area? Or was it a surface detonation?

Google Maps Satellite of the area

Oops...looks like another piece of Korean hardware detonated prematurely. I hope the technician was nearby - I mean...

Originally posted by AfterInfinity
Oops...looks like another piece of Korean hardware detonated prematurely. I hope the technician was nearby - I mean...

edit on 11-2-2013 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)

And that would make a 4.9... Riighhhttt...

It's an underground test..