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  • Curious how we never get articles about the harm caused by western countries nuclear tests...
    by m0skit0
  • I always wondered where and how my country would test nukes if it developed them. Basically there is an expectation that you have to explode at least one.

    It was much easier in colonial times when everyone owned a desert or remote island

    by expedition32
  • The long delay is the interesting part to me. How do they distinguish earthquakes triggered by the test from normal background seismicity?
    by ggg011012
  • Reminds me of a display at Chabot in the bay area. A bubbling volcano covered by a stable mass stays bubbling underneath, but shaking up the mass gives little bubbles a bath up and they break way for the big bubbles leading to a volcanic eruption. If you fragment a he soil at some point in the mantle of earth and there is pressure anywhere below, you could get yourself a new volcano.
    by dzink
  • How long until someone attempts to diffuse a pent up fault line via nuclear geoengineering?
    by ortusdux
  • This article does a very poor job of differentiating earthquakes people feel and care about versus magnitude 2 quakes that are like your neighbor dropping a book upstairs.
    by elictronic
  • Could this be considered a good thing?

    The energy being released in these many tiny earthquakes was always going to exist in this location. Much better to release it slowly via thousands of tiny earthquakes than all at once. Better to have 10k magnitude 3 quakes than one magnitude 7.

    by margalabargala
  • There's a lot of people in this thread who see "North Korea" and "nuclear test" and get fired up but would otherwise shrug if it were instead, say, "Oklahoma" and "fracking".

    The supplemental information is available and says: > Our earthquake catalog consists primarily of small events with magnitudes of < 2.0 and there were 1399 of them.

    The cited Ren&al says: > The magnitudes of these seismic events primarily range from 1.5 to 2.5 and that there were 647 of them.

    USGS (https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/earthquake-and-energy-comp...) says that a magnitude 2.0 earthquake is the equivalent energy of 56kg of explosives, which is more than I'd want to be around but I think for people who actually use the stuff it's not a lot.

    by BigTTYGothGF

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