Nuclear Explosion Suspected at Epicenter of the Sichuan Earthquake

Epoch Times ^ | 6 June 2008 | Wu Weilin

[mondonico]

An unnamed expert believes that a nuclear explosion caused the recent 8.0 magnitude Sichuan earthquake in China, where three weeks after the catastrophe the death toll has reached 69,000 plus.

Overseas Chinese website Boxun News reported that the expert confirmed there was a nuclear explosion near the epicenter, based on witness reports and the discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come from an underground military installation.

[Cicero]

It seems pretty circumstantial, and there were earlier reports of radioactivity and of military nuclear facilities in the area.

If it was a nuclear explosion, I would expect that to show up in the seismographic readings, as interpreted by experts. A lot of study has been put into telling the difference between the signatures of earthquakes or volcanoes and nuclear explosions, going back to the cold ar days.

I wouldn’t necessarily expect any officials to talk about it, however. Coverup mode seems to have become the standard reaction to this sort of thing.

Certainly only speculative at this point, but I’d like to see some trustworthy analysis of this story, if there’s such a thing as a government agent or scientist who can be trusted these days. They all seem to have fish to fry.

[yldstrk]

Eh? They wish.

[Tijeras_Slim]

BS... the Cannikin shot at 5 MT and 5000 DOB produced a very brief 6.5 shock on the richter scale. This quake could not have been produced by a nuke, the scale, depth, and seismic profile is all wrong.

[LasVegasMac]

driven by prevailing winds into international waters where it would be easily detected by US snooper aircraft...

I was not aware that our Elint A/C were also looking for man-made radiation.....

You are obviously more up to speed on what the recon A/C are actually looking for...

[LasVegasMac]

没有红色导线!

I got a link to a great chicken removal program, if ya need help.

[Squantos]

Awww Mac that’s Chinese for “cut the red wire” !!

[count-your-change]

A nuke explosion also has its own unique signal through the earth which is how an underground test shows up on sensors around the world. The signal of an earthquake is different and the difference is easily detected. Some what analogous to running different signals over a phone line.

[LasVegasMac]

LOL.........

need to brush up on the ciphern'.......

[spanalot]

Let me guess - the wheels were not chocked and the truck was in neutral ang got pushed away from the dock as soon as the forktruck wheels hit the dock.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

*snort*

I always wondered what happened to that employee!

[Panzerlied]

“An unnamed expert”

That’s all the proof I need!

[MindBender26]

Special A/C are used. There are special U-2s that do this, at very high altitudes. It's very important, because the byproducts of an explosion tell us lots about the explosion itself.

It can even tell in which reactor the plutonium was “made”, even when and where within the reactor by looking at the “waste” products.

It's very good intel.

[MindBender26]

It's the old “eating mashed potatoes makes boys into serial killers because studies have shown that every serial ever investigated ate mashed potatoes” argument.

Earthquakes happen.

One unnamed “scientist” seeing broken concrete does not make a fission explosion.

[IYAS9YAS]

Cripes, hope that is photoshopped...

[Frank Sheed]

It would be a stroke of real genius to detonate a nuke in an area criss-crossed by earthquake faults from the entire Tibetan plateau and near a huge damn built only recently which holds back billions of gallons of water.

Zheesh!

[manapua]

Gee, I wonder what Debka has to say about this? ;)

[LasVegasMac]

You are telling me nothing new.

Man-made radiation is not Elint intell, right?

Maybe the new platforms can do.......I don't know.

[GOPJ]

With China, who knows what’s the truth and what’s the cover story.

[Cicero]

“An unnamed expert”

Yes, I stumbled over that one, too. OTOH, if a real Chinese expert said this, he certainly wouldn't want to be named, or they'd have him in a gulag and remove his organs for sale before you could say Jack Robinson.

[SolaGratiaSolaFideSolaScript]

You are correct. As a matter of fact if the cause of this earthquake was a nuclear explosion even an underground one then the U.S> and Russia who monitor each other because of the Test Ban treaty would know that there had been a nuclear explosion. International organizations that monitor nuclear activity would also know. The likelihood of this being a nuclear explosion is slim unless of course there is a conspiracy and everyone is in on it.