I have just heard on the news that it is technically possible to fake the North Korea nuclear test by using enough TNT to give the same sizemic readings.
How miuch would be needed and how much area would this amount of explosives take up.
If this is being read in the USA, how does this compare with yoru largest sports stadia?
2006-10-09 12:13:19 · 15 answers · asked by footynutguy 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Russia's defense minister said Monday that North Korea's nuclear test was equivalent to 5,000 tons to 15,000 tons of TNT.
That would be far greater than the force given by South Korea's geological institute, which estimated it at just 550 tons of TNT.
By comparison the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima during World War II was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT.
In 1996, France detonated a bomb beneath Fangataufa Atoll about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti that had a yield of about 120,000 tons of TNT.
2006-10-09 12:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by Lee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read an article saying that the explosion was measured at 4.8 on the Rictor scale. Equivalent to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.....
There are a lot of people very concerned about this out here in China, South Korea and Japan. This guy is daft enought to use one of these things and believe me if that kicks off Iraq will look like a walk in the park.
2006-10-09 12:20:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anchor Cranker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even a small-yield nuclear device has a force equivalent to several hundred thousand TONS of TNT. A one-megaton (one million tons of TNT) device is what I've been hearing was expected in North Korea...one million tons of TNT would take somewhere around 3 filled New Orleans Superdomes of TNT.
It wasn't faked :( I wish it had been.
2006-10-09 12:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what they estimate the explosion to be. If it was equivalent to a 4 Kilo ton explosion then it would take 4 thousand tons of TNT. As far as the sports stadiums it has to be Death Valley at LSU. The geology department there registers seismic activity every time LSU scores. Geaux Tigers.
2006-10-09 12:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Experts said the magnitude was fairly small for a nuclear test, equating to 300 tons to 800 tons of TNT
2006-10-09 12:27:20 · answer #5 · answered by ericismenowwhoareu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they said it was the same as 5,000 tons of TNT. I heard on a radio show that they can actually tell from the Rate of the explosion. Something about Milli seconds a TNT explosion takes more Milli seconds to occur than an Atomic one.
2006-10-09 12:16:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the media is just stating or rather trying to cover up the original story. The bloody Koreans did do it and we in America better wake up and smell the coffee and get our troops out of Iraq and go over there to N.Korea and pull out some huge whup ***. Believe what you heard the first time.
2006-10-09 12:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by marilynhenriksen@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm trying to find the link but the bomb they set off was like 30+ times the size of what we set off in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russia also detected nuclear activity. They are convinced that's for sure.
2006-10-09 12:21:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Approx 15000, tons of TNT to make the explosion. That would do some serious damage I would say.
2006-10-09 12:18:40 · answer #9 · answered by Stars-Moon-Sun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 US M O A B Would do it or the equivelent in high explosive
2006-10-09 12:18:09 · answer #10 · answered by Shawn S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋