North Korea’s nuclear EARTHQUAKE: Kim’s weapons ‘move Earth’ as tremors shake country
AN EARTHQUAKE hit near the North Korean nuclear test site today – and experts have revealed they think it was caused by Kim Jong-un’s nukes.
By Douglas Patient
DailyStar.co.uk
9th December 2017
Minor tremors were detected and, incredibly, experts believe they are aftershocks from the country’s massive nuclear test in early September.
The shakes, of magnitude 2.9 and 2.4, were detected at 6.13am and 6.40am, a US Geological Survey official said.
Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, tweeted that the earthquake was “tectonic”.
They were felt in the vicinity of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, where North Korea conducted its sixth and largest underground nuclear test on September 3.
“They’re probably relaxation events from the sixth nuclear test,” the US Geological Survey official said.
“When you have a large nuclear test, it moves the earth’s crust around the area, and it takes a while for it to fully subside. We’ve had a few of them since the sixth nuclear test.”
Pyongyang said the September test was of an H-bomb.
A huge collapse at the site killed hundreds of people.
Experts have estimated it was 10 times more powerful than the US atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
A series of quakes since then has prompted experts and observers to suspect the test might have damaged the mountainous location of its site in the northwest tip of North Korea.
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