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Was Iran’s Earthquake a Nuclear Test? Suspicions Amid Rising Tensions
FirstPost ^ | 11/10/24 | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Posted on 10/13/2024 1:00:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

On October 5, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Semnan, Iran, raising online suspicions of a nuclear test amid escalating tensions with Israel. While some claim this could be related to Iran’s nuclear program, there is no concrete evidence to support the theory. Iran’s nuclear ambitions date back to the 1950s, with its current capacity to build a bomb under scrutiny.

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The fact that this Indian source took until now to post the story, and couched it as a question, is suspect. If it was a confirmed story, it would be front page and breaking. But this is so far just a rumor, he said before the mushroom cloud burst overhead.
1 posted on 10/13/2024 1:00:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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2 posted on 10/13/2024 1:08:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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This was posted a week, and dismissed as fear-mongering and clickbait. Points to consider, that take less than five minutes to google or just think it through:

1. 10 km deep is deeper than necessary, and to take the time to dig a shaft that deep would be visible from commercial satellites.
2. Given all the US and likely Israeli intel ops, there is no way Iran could hide building an underground test site in secrecy, no matter where it is. Deception is not possible.
3. As much as we don't like Iran's government, they aren't so twisted they would risk irradiating a section of one of their major highways and a dozen towns when better alternatives are obviously available.

3 posted on 10/13/2024 1:10:19 PM PDT by Widget Jr (9/11 - 11M - 26/11 - 10/7)
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To: BenLurkin

May that arrogant evil man rot forever!


4 posted on 10/13/2024 1:11:07 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Eleutheria5

Too deep, the deepest US test was 5800 feet, for a 5 megaton device. Nuke seismic signals are very distinctive, and not like quakes.


5 posted on 10/13/2024 1:12:40 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: No name given

As I posted this, we had a very loud alarm here in Haifa, immediately followed by explosions that made the windows vibrate. My wife heeded the warning and went into the safe room downstairs. I kept at my work, but closed the door to the side room, so any flying glass wouldn’t hit me. That’s just how I am.

If a nuclear bomb is used, which I doubt will ever happen, we’ll all be dead or dying. So why miss working. I lost enough time building my succah (festival temporary booth), which is still not finished.

So bombs, shmombs. We’re all in G-d’s hands.


6 posted on 10/13/2024 1:17:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Widget Jr

10Km is 6.2 miles deep. The deepest mine on Earth is 4.0 KM in South Africa.


7 posted on 10/13/2024 1:17:24 PM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

There are old mine shafts that could be used. I don’t know.


8 posted on 10/13/2024 1:18:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Rumor intended to mitigate Israel’s inevitable response, and steer it far away from Obama’s / the mullahs’ nuke program.


9 posted on 10/13/2024 1:21:00 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Eleutheria5

I figured it was a deep penetrator courtesy of IDF.


10 posted on 10/13/2024 1:21:42 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I was going to post much the same.
If it was a nuclear test, they know it.
They may not acknowledge it publicly.
But, they know.


11 posted on 10/13/2024 1:28:34 PM PDT by sjmjax
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This is just stupid.

There are two faults . . . north and south of Semnan. Tarood fault. North Alborz fault. Either could be the source of the data.

If there were no faults nearby, okay then you can think nuke — provided you think they are so stupid as to do that anywhere near all those cities. Somebody already noted this.

Look, you get a lot of Uranium and you centrifuge the U235 content up north of 50%. That’s a nuke, though 80% is more solid. Or . . . you take 5% U235 post centrifuge and build a reactor, and in that reactor you cook up Plutonium, which is what most bombs use now.

This is all very well known stuff. Them having a nuke or not matters less than how many they have.


12 posted on 10/13/2024 1:32:03 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Eleutheria5

Quake detection said it was 18 miles deep.
Not a nuclear test.


13 posted on 10/13/2024 1:44:02 PM PDT by Zathras
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A resounding NO. The quake was 10 miles deep.


14 posted on 10/13/2024 1:48:08 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Eleutheria5

This story has been around since the day after it happened. It was a little deep for a nuke test….but who knows. It could be why things are not happening as quickly as some might think they should.


15 posted on 10/13/2024 1:55:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Widget Jr

Could remote seismometers be hacked to simulate the reports generated by the sensors if a real seismic event occured?
Could it have been a fabricated seismic report?

“Death to America...death to Israel” statements from Iran not twisted Enough?


16 posted on 10/13/2024 2:03:37 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I’m pretty sure they can tell the difference between natural earthquakes and those caused by nuclear tests, it has to do with the S and P waves.


17 posted on 10/13/2024 2:09:18 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Owen

Also a nuke test wouldn’t register as being 10+ km deep. 2 to 3km deep is more plausible.


18 posted on 10/13/2024 2:14:27 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: Eleutheria5

They don’t know?

Cmon satellites above the earth know.

Again they lie.


19 posted on 10/13/2024 2:16:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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The whole bloody thing was suspect, timing, question mark, that it’s just on an India news service. But nuclear is news, even if fake.


20 posted on 10/13/2024 2:22:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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