North Korea’s sixth, and last, nuclear test in september 2017 was so powerful that it still triggers the earthquake over a year later. It reports to South Korea’s Meteorological institute (KMA).
Anne Strømmen Lycke, managing director of the Norwegian seismic observatory Norsar, confirming that it was turned alarm also at their offices at Kjeller outside of Lillestrøm.
There was an alarm at us in the night. The incident occurred at 23.20 bst, when we got the data from several monitoring stations around the world.
the North Korean nuclear bomb should be five times as powerful as Nagasaki-bomba
the Quake, which was measured to 2.8, was traced back to the dictator Kim Jong-uns atomprøvesprengningsbase Punggye-ri in North Korea.
Giant bomb
Of the six atomprøvesprengninger in the country’s history, have each taken place at the testbasen Punggye-ri in the north of the country. Specifically, in tunnels dug deep down under the mountain Mantap.
the sixth of The prøvesprengningene, which took place 3. september in 2017, it is currently the most powerful. Bursting led to an earthquake that was measured at 6,3, and analysts believe that the bomba was much more powerful than all of the country’s previous nuclear tests combined.
KMA refers to the measurements of the nattas earthquake, which struck Hamgyong province in North Korea. They believe the quake originated as a result of the powerful prøvesprengningen in the last year. It is also the preliminary conclusion from Norsar.
We worked in the night and in the day to investigate the signals, and sees that they are similar to much on the series of aftershocks that were in the area in the fall of 2017 and may of 2018, ” says Lycke to the Newspaper.
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It is prior known that the bursting in september last year had dramatic consequences for the mountain.
After having seen the satellite images of the mountain, it was chinese scientists who first beat the alarm. Satellite imagery showed a large landslide in the mountainside, and radar/SAR images captured by Airbus showed that the Mantap, which was previously measured at 2205 meters, had decreased significantly after the bursting. In retrospect fear, several geologists that the mountain could collapse, which can create cracks that emit radiation.
In the worst case, could the world be facing a cruel atomkatastrofe.
If the mountain collapses and creates a hole (cracks, ed.anm.), then it will drop out many bad things, said Wang Naiyan, a leading researcher who is working with China’s nuclear program, South China Morning Post last year.
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South Korea’s chief meteorologist Nam Ate-cheol came up after the chinese warnings:
– Based on analysis of satellite imagery, we believe that it is a cavity, which is between 60 and 100 meters far, at the foot of the mountain. If they are conducting a new nuclear test, then there is the danger of collapse, ” he says to the south Korean news agency Yonhap.
Touches on
Now suggest so much that the mountains still touches on, despite the fact that it has not been completed new atomprøvesprengninger. Happiness emphasizes that the area in question in North Korea is not prone to natural earthquakes,
the Experts think it probably is the case that the parts of the mountain still collapses and puts itself after the huge explosion in 2017.
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– The first thing we check is whether there can be a new bomb. But we are now confident that what happened in the night was not a new bursting. What we can say because the signals are completely different, ” says Lycke.
She says Norsar has bitten off note that the CNN reports that there is talk about an earthquake 12 km deep.
we believe this is not correct. If there was a aftershocks, so it would not have been as deep. It is not something in the data we have suggest that it was so deep. Furthermore, we know that this area in North Korea is not prone to natural earthquakes, ” says Lycke, and continues:
– Bomba in 2017 was so great that the whole mountain was severely damaged. It makes that part of the tunnelsystemet constantly collapses. In addition, parts of the mountain tired, in the same way as the old gruvefjell that is pierced. It can also amount phrases deeper, because the scenery come to rest again after the huge explosion, she says.
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In a startling open letter to the world, in the aftermath of the last prøvesprengningen, declared North Korea itself as a “fully important” and accusing at the same time Us president Donald Trump to “try to push the world into a cruel atomkatastrofe”.
In his nyttårstale one year ago opened, however, Kim Jong-un up for the dialogue with the outside world, and in the summer carried the north Korean leader and his american counterpart, Donald Trump, a historic summit in Singapore. Where they wrote a vague consensus about atomnedrustning, as they since have been arguing about. A short time in advance of the meeting provided North Korea to blow up the tunnelåpningene to the Mantap.
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Since then there has not been great, other than the fact that Pyongyang and Washington have been arguing about what atomnedrustning means.
– Sprengningene of tunnelsystemet was largely just a demonstration. It did, in reality, nothing of value. They broke also not the last door that leads into sidefjellet, where everything apparently is ready for a new prøvesprengning. So this plant can be opened up again at any time, ” she says.
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Therefore, still goes the alarm each time it is reported tremors in North Korea.
– It follows we are still on, ” says Lycke.
request new meeting
Kim Jong-un hinted as late as Tuesday that North Korea may take new measures to defend their independence.
– If the united STATES keeps its promise, which was given in front of the whole world, and insist on sanctions and pressure against our republic, we have perhaps no choice but to consider new ways to defend our independence and our interests, ” said Kim in his nyttårstale Tuesday.
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He requires that the united STATES and South Korea end for the good of their joint military exercises, before he added that he is ready to meet with Trump again.
– I’m ready to sit down with Us president at any time in the future and make all possible efforts for a result that has been welcomed by the international community.
Trump responded late Tuesday night at the invitation.
– I also look forward to meeting Kim, that is so aware that North Korea has a large economic potential, writes the president.
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