The ground around N. Korea’s nuclear test site continues to shake three months after the rogue regime conducted its sixth nuclear test.
The ground around North Korea’s nuclear test site continues to shake three months after the rogue regime carried out its sixth nuclear test, detonating a suspected hydrogen bomb.
Tremors, believed to be the result of North Korea’s test of a powerful staged thermonuclear weapon in early September, were detected near the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site Saturday, a U. S. Geological Survey official told Reuters.
On Sept. 3, North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb with an explosive yield at least 10 times greater than that of the atomic bomb the U. S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The test literally moved mountains, causing landslides and reshaping the mountain under which the nuclear test site is located.
Since then, at least half a dozen small earthquakes have continuously rocked the area.
Past tests produced smaller explosive yields, but September’s explosion was unlike anything seen before in North Korea. “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,” the USGS official explained.
