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USGS Detects 4.9 Magnitude Earthquake in North Korea, Likely Linked to Nuclear Test

Feb. 11, 2013 10:56pm

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An earthquake was detected Tuesday in North Korea just north of a site where the country has conducted nuclear tests, providing strong indication that Pyongyang has gone ahead with a highly anticipated third test. There was, however, no confirmation of the test.

The South Korean Defense Ministry, which raised its military alert level after the quake, said it was trying to determine whether it was a test. Nuclear blasts can create tremors but they are distinct from those caused by natural earthquakes.

The U.N. organization monitoring nuclear tests says it has detected an “unusual seismic event” in North Korea.

The U.S. Geological Survey as well as earthquake monitoring stations in South Korea detected an earthquake just north of a site where North Korea conducted its second nuclear test in 2009.

“There is a high possibility that North Korea has conducted a nuclear test,” said Chi Heoncheol, an earthquake specialist at the government-funded Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. Chi said a magnitude 3.9 magnitude earthquake and a magnitude 4.5 earthquake were detected in the North’s 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests.

South Korean, U.S. and Japanese seismic monitoring agencies put the magnitude of Tuesday’s quake at 4.7, 4.9 and 5.2 respectively.

“We think it is possible it came about as a result of a nuclear test by North Korea from looking at past cases,” Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said at a news conference Tuesday, noting that they were still gathering information.

The United States and its allies have been on edge since North Korea said last month it will conduct its third nuclear test to protest toughened sanctions over a December rocket launch that the U.N. called a cover for a banned missile test.

North Korea’s politburo vowed to continue firing “powerful long-range rockets,” but a statement by state media Tuesday made no mention of a nuclear test.

North Korea’s National Defense Commission said Jan. 23 that the United States was its prime target for a nuclear test and long-range rocket launches. North Korea accuses Washington of leading the push to punish Pyongyang for its December rocket launch.

Last October, a spokesman from the commission told state media that the country had built a missile capable of striking the United States, but did not provide further details. A missile featured in an April 2012 military parade appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, but its authenticity has not been verified by foreign experts.

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Comments (33)

  • The_Woofster
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:42pm

    You mean that “little tiny country that poses no threat”?

    O-bozo will haf’ to ‘splain to Lucy a whole lot!

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:45am

    Once again, a third world dictator pulls our president’s punk card. Man, it’s just embarrassing. He just keeps bullying the small group of effeminate nobodies named the Republican party because he knows they won’t fight back.

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  • GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:51am

    Same thing occurred in lower Manhattan THREE TIMES, in Sept of two thousand one. On the same day no less, and nobody paid attention.

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    GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3  
  • waspanglosaxon
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:13am

    This country invaded a non-aggressive nation (Iraq) on a proven-false pretext, murdered its legitimate leader and has otherwise been Israel’s puppet for decades now. Now they’re trying to foment a war with another non-aggressive nation (Iran), at Israel’s behest, of course.
    All this time, North Korea has been developing nukes that could create true havoc. It’s high time we got rid of the Zionists’ paid pimps in DC and replaced them with some honest leaders who will protect us from the real threats.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:39am

    Maybe Kim Dung Poo had a hissy fit and stamped his feet when someone told him he has the world’s ugliest haircut.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:24am

    Obama cries foul as he tries to pivot around another failure. U. S. foreign policy represented by Secretary ‘dead man walking’ Lurch has no where to run, no where to hide. U.S. military proness, and world stature heads in a downward spiral.

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  • sinner-saint
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:42am

    Lol…..the mentally ill fake POTUS is doing eveything he possibly can to destroy the U.S. and help all our enemies. That’s what happens when you vote a madman into power.

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  • showmerancher
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:03am

    On the eve of King Barry’s SOTU speech, N. Korea detonates a nuclear test. In response (according to report of the SOTU speech), the King will declare surrender by calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Then he’ll issue the command to “do something about it” to the White House domestic staff while he uses the move he copped from Jimmy Carter that he also used for Benghazi (hiding out under the bed). I can just hear the parody songs now “Coward of the Country” sung to Kenny Roger’s “Coward of the County”.

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  • ZAP
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:21am

    Don’t worry people…The best he could do is hit California and he be doing the rest of us a favor…

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    ZAP  
  • goodoldboy911
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:11am

    Let’s see if our president even mentions anything tomorrow at the State of the Union address. He will smile with those big teeth and flap those ears and tell us everything is just fine. We can fix everything by raising taxes and cutting money to the national defense. How about instead of just scrapping all those old nuclear weapons we just use them where needed..?

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  • TotallyNotATroll
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:09am

    Calm down, Kim Jong __ just ate a bean burrito.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:22am

    I bet Obama is wondering if he wants to earn that Nobel Peace Prize anymore. Arab Spring…Libya…Iran… Palestine…N. Korea…etc…oh, and the US(no peace here anymore either)…take your pick President Zero…where have you been? If you get the Peace Prize for trying only, then give it to Glenn Beck, because I and many can say he has tried his darn-est to bring peace to the US and abroad, or maybe give it to that Navy Seal that took one of our biggest threats out , Bin Laden.

    BTW, we all know that the UN and the US is capable of causing earthquakes now. The secret is out. How many have we made happen? Did the UN make the one in Japan? We do have a recording of an explosion under the sea before the tsunami came ashore. I have always wondered where and why we had something under the ocean to pick up that sound. GE nuclear plant have anything to do with that, or could it be the money owed to us by Japan for solar equipment? Conspiring here?…yep and I have many more…lol. They started in 2009….just a pastime for me now. Or maybe they are just logical questions like those on the left can ask without being harassed by the administration.

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  • Kumo
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:21am

    Peter the Roman will be coming to power soon, Obama is still our President and now the chubby North Korean with the bad haircut is being a turd just like his father. What a crappy day.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:02am

    Recall that N Korea was preparing TWO nuclear tests, and Iran has declared itself to be a nuclear power now. Anyone want to guess if one or both bombs were designed in Iran?

    Irregardless a third successful test now means N Korea is refining its designs and on the way to a second-generation weapon. Given the recorded strength of the quakes its probable about a 20kt device.

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    Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • DEFCON4
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:30am

      @ Snow, Designed in Iran, by our old foes behind the ‘Iron curtain’.

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:26am

      @snowleopard

      don’t use “irregardless”, it is not a word :) your smarter then that.

      The explosion was a a depth that would actually indicate less than 10kt. the point being is that this is not the first one. In fact several years ago I went through declassified material fron the US Senate intellegence committee report/minutes on line. I was looking for the references of material that my nephew was standing on in a picture hanging in my office at talil, iraq (chemical ICBM’s) the media covered this up. The records at thomas.gov talked about several hundred serin artillary shells and several serin short range rockets.

      the bombshell was the testimony of a german trained iraqi scientist that worked underground outside (north of) talil. It was a nuke testing site. he had been working with koreans and detonated SEVERAL 1 kiloton devises. This was in the declassified portion of testimony.

      Koreans have all the makings. especially when clintons secretary of state gave them the missle launch technology (does anyone remember this?). The problem is purity. That is where the brotherhood comes in. if you look at a map of north africa and overlay it with uranium mining and purification, you now know whats going on. that is why the french are fighting so hard right now. they are europes biggest nuclear fuel user and have the biggest operation in north africa.
      ‘
      The tards in dc do not understand “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend”

      there is twice as much uranium in

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  • valleyfever
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:42pm

    These experts can tell the difference between an earthquake and a nuke blast. They’ve been measuring both for years. Can’t anybody admit the truth anymore?

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    valleyfever  
    • Witness1974
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:04am

      All you have to do is check out the usgs web site. This “earthquake” was only 1Km deep. I haven’t seen any that shallow before and I’ve been following the site almost daily for a couple of years now.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:23pm

    One day there’ll be an American president with the intestinal fortitude to snuff out both Iran and North Korea (and stand up to our Chinese overloads), but not this regime.

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  • tonypro
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:22pm

    Maybe they will blow themselves up, and make the world a better place.

    I say we send barry over to observe the next testing, you know, to see if he really is as invincible as he thinks he is.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:05am

      I wish we could, and I imagine Obama will make mention of it in the State of the Union tomorrow, apologizing as always for the USA interfering with N Korea having nuclear weapons. Obama and his ‘Nuclear Zero” policy is madness in the face of a third successful nuclear test.

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      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
  • denkat56
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:19pm

    Hey Obama another one of our enemies has nuclear capabilities. What you going to do, go and apologize .

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    • dosdelgados
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:53pm

      He’ll have the state dept. send them a strongly-worded letter.

      Maybe use all caps so they know he’s serious.

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      dosdelgados  
  • DEFCON4
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:16pm

    Could it be the sound of the 3 million starving North Korean civilians foraging for food ?

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    DEFCON4  
  • StandingOnMyHead
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:12pm

    So much for sanctions…looks like things just got a lot more interesting!

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    StandingOnMyHead  
  • Jake Dog2
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:08pm

    Im sure Obama will quote Hillary Clinton “What different does it make” if they get a nuke.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:03am

      Someone should explain the difference to Clinton this way: Iran is allied with N Korea, and has declared itself a nuclear power over the weekend. Which city would Madam Clinton prefer to be blown off the map of the United States first?

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      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • barber2
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:36am

      SNOW: Shades of the old Axis of Evil which the Left excoriated the Bush Administration for labeling as such ! The Left who is now riding the same bus with the mysterious ” rebels .” All united to destroy American capitalism and, apparently, America in the process. ( The arrogant Lefties are not as smart as they imagine themselves to be. Witness the arrogant comments they make here….)

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  • woodyee
    Posted on February 11, 2013 at 11:00pm

    “North Korea’s powerful politburo…”
    “North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission…”

    Could it have been the North Korean leaders “powerful’ ****-plosion after an all-night kim-chee bar hop?

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