North Korea’s nuclear tests could cause Mount Paekdu to erupt – 1,000 years after the volcano caused ‘one of the largest explosive events in human history’

Thursday, February 18, 2016
By Paul Martin

Mount Paekdu lies just 70 miles from the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility
Fourth atom bomb test last month triggered a 5.1-magnitude earthquake
Seismologists fear one more test could jolt the volcano back into life
In 946, it spewed out 1,000ft plume of gas and rock that covered Japan

By SIMON TOMLINSON
DailyMail.com
18 February 2016

North Korea’s nuclear tests could trigger the eruption of a volcano that once produced one of the most powerful explosions ever recorded, experts have warned.

The 9,000ft Mount Paekdu lies just 70 miles from the Punggye-ri facility where last month Pyongyang carried out the fourth of its nuclear bomb tests.

That underground detonation triggered a 5.1-magnitude earthquake that shook roads and buildings hundreds of miles away.

Now seismologists fear one more test could jolt the magma chamber back into life after noting that it has been expanding in recent years. It last erupted in 1903.

They said the volcano was once responsible for ‘one of the largest explosive events in human history’ when it erupted in 946, producing a flow of hot gas and rock nearly 1,000ft thick.

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