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North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

rbanffy

Comments (120)

  • BigTTYGothGF
    There's a lot of people in this thread who see "North Korea" and "nuclear test" and get fired up but would otherwise shrug if it were instead, say, "Oklahoma" and "fracking".The supplemental information is available and says: > Our earthquake catalog consists primarily of small events with magnitudes of < 2.0 and there were 1399 of them.The cited Ren&al says: > The magnitudes of these seismic events primarily range from 1.5 to 2.5 and that there were 647 of them.USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/earthquake-and-energy-comp...) says that a magnitude 2.0 earthquake is the equivalent energy of 56kg of explosives, which is more than I'd want to be around but I think for people who actually use the stuff it's not a lot.
  • margalabargala
    Could this be considered a good thing?The energy being released in these many tiny earthquakes was always going to exist in this location. Much better to release it slowly via thousands of tiny earthquakes than all at once. Better to have 10k magnitude 3 quakes than one magnitude 7.
  • elictronic
    This article does a very poor job of differentiating earthquakes people feel and care about versus magnitude 2 quakes that are like your neighbor dropping a book upstairs.
  • ortusdux
    How long until someone attempts to diffuse a pent up fault line via nuclear geoengineering?
  • dzink
    Reminds me of a display at Chabot in the bay area. A bubbling volcano covered by a stable mass stays bubbling underneath, but shaking up the mass gives little bubbles a bath up and they break way for the big bubbles leading to a volcanic eruption. If you fragment a he soil at some point in the mantle of earth and there is pressure anywhere below, you could get yourself a new volcano.
  • ggg011012
    The long delay is the interesting part to me. How do they distinguish earthquakes triggered by the test from normal background seismicity?
  • trumbitta2
    Basically, they gave their land Atrial Fibrillation through strong extrasystoles.
  • SoftTalker
    It isn't geological destabilization. They've awakened Godzilla.
  • m0skit0
    Curious how we never get articles about the harm caused by western countries nuclear tests...
  • nephihaha
    20 km isn't that far away but still shocking. (No pun intended.)
  • jdw64
    So does that mean the Korean Peninsula is no longer a geologically safe region from earthquakes going forward? That's scary.
  • artur_makly
    If you keep tickling the lamp.. dont be surprised when the genie pops out.Or better put:Fuck with pachamama.. and she will have the last laugh
  • ranger_danger
    Endless captcha loop for me, is there an archive? (archive.ph etc. has the same issue for me)
  • shevy-java
    People are critical of North Korea - very understandable since the Juche ideology is absolute rubbish nonsense and North Korea remains hostile to South Korea. However had, with the USA becoming a rogue country now, I think it is time that many more countries will need a small, defensive nuclear arsenal: South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Canada, the whole EU (that is, all EU members need protection on their own; the USA can not be trusted anymore, Trump made that clear while serving Putin as agent Krasnov).One can say that more nukes are bad; that's true. However had, the big old countries CONSTANTLY abuse smaller countries. This happens again and again and again. So, since they don't stop their own nuclear abuse and blackmail, the only response that is logical is to more fairly distribute nukes. Of course a much better option would be for all countries to give up nukes; perhaps that will happen one day in the future though probably not, since when one refuses, others would have to follow suit and also get nukes. So the only viable long-term strategy is to have nukes, while also working much harder to improve diplomacy.
  • willmadden
    That headline is tabloid tier bs. They haven't established anything close to causation. Do better, science.org.
  • ck2
    imagine the decades of quakes US will set off with the bunker buster they are now developing for Pickaxe Mountain (Iran, solid granite rock, one mile deep)billions more drained from our economy and I bet the irony is it will be nuclear somehow
  • aaron695
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