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2006-10-09 China-Japan-Koreas
Russia: NKorea test greater than reported
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Posted by Steve 2006-10-09 09:03|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 great
Posted by bk 2006-10-09 09:45||   2006-10-09 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Surely we have others with detectors besides the USGS, the kind of detectores sensitive to this kind of thing? If the seismic wave went through the Earth several times, well we're on the other side of that, right?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-09 10:39||   2006-10-09 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The USGS signal processing is oriented towards earthquakes. I suspect we have quite detailed seismic data on the explosion and know exactly how big it was. Doesn't mean we want to talk about it though.

A lot of the seismometer data is freely available. No doubt, numerically oriented geeks will have a field day with it.
Posted by SteveS 2006-10-09 10:53||   2006-10-09 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 The Russians likely have a good idea of the geology of the area - all important for yield estimation.
Posted by Shipman 2006-10-09 11:51||   2006-10-09 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 When they did the Cannikan shots at Amchitka in 1971, I was working for USGS in earthquake research in Menlo Park, CA. We watched the 5 megaton shot coming in on the seismographs. Quite lively on the charts.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-10-09 17:17||   2006-10-09 17:17|| Front Page Top

#6 You can be sure that if we didn't have a detector platform in South Korea already,we flew one in for the event. I'd also wager a bundle that we used our terrain mapping satellites to do a ground penetrating scan of the intervening territory in order to improve our estimates of the yield.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-09 21:21||   2006-10-09 21:21|| Front Page Top

#7 CNN > Senior US INTEL Official > US INTEL can't affirm whether [first]test was a de facto nuke test. Official claims may had been a "SUB-KILOTON" NON-NUCLEAR event producable by using many many tons of TNT = HE's. *IOW, A POSSIBLE "FAKE" NUKE TEST.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-09 23:40||   2006-10-09 23:40|| Front Page Top

#8 A "fake" "nuclear" detonation > implies that starving NORTH KOREA may truly want to break from China's control but is aware of the sensitivities of the Chicommies towards having a potens future reunified KOREAS NOT under either COMMUNISM OR CHINESE CONTROL.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-09 23:45||   2006-10-09 23:45|| Front Page Top

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