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To: JPX2011

WaPo just put up an article estimating it at 20-30 KT.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-conducts-fifth-nuclear-test-as-regime-celebrates-national-holiday/2016/09/08/9332c01d-6921-4fe3-8f68-c611dc59f5a9_story.html

I am guessing they are estimating that only a fraction of the energy goes into shaking the earth with the rest going out as heat, light, gamma rays, etc. (In other words the higher yields come from tables based on previous tests, not from a simple energy conversion formula.)


72 posted on 09/08/2016 6:43:08 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

20-30kt puts it in Fat Man/Nagasaki territory.


76 posted on 09/08/2016 6:47:22 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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