Just an earthquake

[brettdale]

This is why Japan thought it was another Nuke test, they have now confirmed it was just an earthquake.

[babylonsister]

1. Or not. Earthquakes are common in and around Japan. I don't know. nt

[Scoot420fla]

4. Also common after nuke tests

I seem to remember India testing a nuke underground just before they had an earthquake that killed thousands...wouldnt you think that a large underground blast just MIGHT shake the bedrock of the surrounding regions enough to cause a quake??

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. No.

It isn't possible to cause a large earthquake using nuclear weapons.

[Fox Mulder]

2. Earthquakes happen all the time in Japan.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

And the depth of this latest one is 30 km.

[brettdale]

5. Its a big coincidence though

Its a big coincidence though.

5.8 is quite large.

[DRoseDARs]

7. Not really. Japan sits right above a convergent fault unlike California

...which means more frequent earthquakes. And given that a magnitude 5 is exponentially larger than a magnitude 3, it would mean North Korea would probably have to have detonated a significantly larger bomb, perhaps a thermonuclear device. That is highly unlikely.

[spanone]

3. Something Clinton did in 1994 caused this, I'm sure.

:sarcasm:

[wicket]

6. The Clenis caused it!

:P

[catzies]

15. You forgot the ®!

As in "The Clenis®!" :P

[wicket]

17. LOL!

:rofl:

[cynatnite]

14. Damn, that's one powerful...

oh, never mind. :rofl:

[Crabby Appleton]

8. There was an actual earthquake

Sea of Japan - about a 6.0 - not a nuke test

[AnnieBW]

9. Kim Stamped His Foot

and the earth shook!

[Blackthorn]

10. Link? I have a bet to win.

[DRoseDARs]

11. Here, USGS:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ustrb2.php

[Blackthorn]

13. Much oblige. But what does this prove?

NK can be described better than "off the east coast of Honshu". What happened to the previous reports about a 3.8-4.2 event in mainlain NK. I don't get it.

[DRoseDARs]

16. Erm, did you click the link at all?

North Korea is well WEST of Japan, the earthquake's epicenter was well out to sea EAST of Japan. Any test in North Korea CANNOT have an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean east of Japan, it would have to be on the Korean Penisula.

Edit: Unless, of course, someone wants to make the nutty assertion that North Korea violated Japanese territorial waters off their east coast totally undetected, built an oil rig-like structure, bored down deep into the oceanic crust, and detonated the world's first underground underwater deep-ocean nuclear test. I imagine the freepers would eat that up...

[Blackthorn]

19. I did. I was referring to other USGS graphics

...that have a quake registered IN North Korea that have been posted in other threads.

[MGD]

12. somone better tell CNN. they're still fear mongering about a second test

oops. looks like they got the message during the commercial break.