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Re: Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't

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On 1/7/16 2:38 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Everybody has known this for days now, spamming shit head.



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Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-confusion-the-data-suggest-north-korea-s-h-bomb-isn-t/

 > Researchers can estimate the yield of a nuclear explosion based on
 > the amplitude of the seismic waves it creates. Data collected at a
 > Global Seismographic Network Station in Mudanjiang, China, however,
 > suggest roughly a 3.4- to seven-kiloton blast, says Won-Young Kim, a
 > senior research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont–Doherty
 > Earth Observatory. (A kiloton is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT.) Kim
 > calculated this yield based on the magnitude 5.1 body waves the
 > detonation sent rippling through Earth. This was more powerful than
 > North Korea’s previous nuclear test, a 2.2- to four-kiloton blast in
 > 2013 that set off waves equivalent to a magnitude 4.5 to 4.7
 > earthquake, but not nearly enough to confirm the use of a
 > thermonuclear bomb.
 >
 > Researchers have difficulty quantifying the exact size of North
 > Korea’s nuclear detonations because the depth of the explosive
 > device, properties of the rock surrounding the explosion and other
 > factors influence the seismic measurements produced, Kim says. North
 > Korea does not publicize the depth of its tests, although the
 > material at the test site in Punggye-ri is thought to be hard
 > granite.


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Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 14:21 -0600
  Re: Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-07 20:38 +0000
    Re: Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 15:11 -0600
      Re: Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-07 22:03 +0000
  Re: Nuclear Confusion: The Data Suggest North Korea's "H–Bomb" Isn't "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-07 21:33 -0800

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