Posted on 09/08/2016 5:53:38 PM PDT by rdl6989
(URGENT) Artificial earthquake detected in N. Korea: weather service
(Excerpt) Read more at english.yonhapnews.co.kr ...
I checked Wolfram Alpha and it says 5.3 Richter = 1.3 KT
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5.3+Richter+scale&wal=header
I bet it doesn't seem that way to Japan. The North Koreans have been firing off missiles their way recently too.
I wonder how many prisoners he had vaporized in the explosion.
According to my earthquake app a 5.3 in Sungjibaegam NK Hey, I live in SoCal. An earthquake app is not weird.
LOL. Good one.
Interesting. Well then I’d have to agree with you that seems pretty weak for a successful test.
Not weird at all, I have one and I don’t live in earthquake country. My app sounded an alert long before this event was picked up by the news media.
Zig! For great justice!
“Interesting. Well then I’d have to agree with you that seems pretty weak for a successful test.”
The US had numerous successful tests that small. The size of the bang isn’t always indicative of how well it worked.
Washington Post analyst is saying at least 20-30kt.
WaPo just put up an article estimating it at 20-30 KT.
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.)
Interestingly enough, there is a gulag to the NE of there.
According to the maps, never been there myself, heh.
I don't think Obama cares.
20-30kt puts it in Fat Man/Nagasaki territory.
Kim got tired of executing relatives with RPGs and stepped it up to nukes.
Yeah, that’s not a dud.
I wonder if it was Uranium or Pu.
CATS!
Me too.
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