Could N. Korea's Nulcear Test Be Related To Hawaii's Earthquake?

Question

I was wondering if last week's nuclear test by N. Korea, which caused an artificial earthqualke registering (4.3 magnitude) is related to today's Earthquake in Hawaii. Is it possible that it caused some shift in the tectonic plates and increased instability in that part of the world. I know that that region does have an active plate tectonics. Anyone with a science background or just some general knowledge of this subject want to weigh in? What do you think of my theory that it COULD be realted? I don't think it's too far fetched.

Answer 1

No, that impossible. a 4.3 magnitude blast could not cause another 6.6 magnitude quake thousands of miles away. A blast that small wouldn't be able to affect plat tectonics much. During the cold war, the US and Russia tested hundreds of nukes, some close to the San Andreas fault line. There was no increase in earthquakes.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

In Washington, White House spokesman Blair Jones said U.S. officials had not detected any evidence of additional North Korea testing.

"Japanese officials are now saying that this occurrence may be related to an earthquake in northern Japan," Jones said.

The reaction to the earthquake underscored the jitters in Asia over reports that North Korea planned a second test after it announced Monday it had conducted its first nuclear test. Some analysts expect the regime to conduct more tests amid suspicion the first, relatively small explosion might have partially failed.

"We have very real concerns that they may conduct another nuclear test and that they may do so very soon," Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told reporters on Wednesday, a day after he met with North Korean Ambassador Chon Jae-hong to condemn the atomic program.

A senior State Department official said the U.S. would not be surprised if there were multiple tests, but so far there is no sign of one. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Alarm was triggered when Japanese media reported early Wednesday that the government had detected tremors in North Korea, leading it to suspect Pyongyang had conducted a second nuclear test.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's spokesman confirmed the government was checking whether the North had tested another nuclear device.

Shortly after that, the Japanese meteorological agency said a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 shook northern Japan.

The quake, which struck at 8:58 a.m., was centered off the coast of Fukushima, 149 miles northeast of Tokyo at a depth of about 19 miles. The agency said that the tremor was a genuine quake and had nothing to do North Korean nuclear testing.

The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said Japanese broadcaster NHK called the USGS to check on seismic activity in the region at about 7:40 a.m. local time, more than an hour before the earthquake.

Later Wednesday morning, Abe said he had no information to confirm North Korea had conducted a second nuclear test.

"I have had not received information about any indications ... that a test has taken place," the prime minister said at a parliamentary budget meeting.

U.S. and South Korean monitors said they had not detected any new seismic activity Wednesday in North Korea.

The U.S. Geological Survey said it had detected an earthquake in Japan but not in North Korea.

"Either it was very small, or it didn't happen at all," USGS official Bruce Presgrave said of the reports on North Korea. "If the event would have been 2.5 or bigger, we would have seen something."

The North Korean nuclear test on Monday registered the same force as a magnitude-4.2 earthquake.

The head of South Korean seismic monitoring station said no activity has been detected in North Korea that could indicate a possible second North Korea nuclear test.

"There's no signal from North Korea, even no small event," Chi Heon-cheol, director of the South's Korea Earthquake Research Center, told AP.

The earthquake off Japan's coast was centered approximately 780 miles from the site where North Korea conducted its nuclear test. It occurred about 740 miles from the closest point on the North Korean coast.

There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Answer 4

i asked the same question earlier, you can check some of the good answer. i thought it happened in oahu, but the main epicenter is in the big island. but i think the whole region of hawaii feel it..

regarding your theory, i was thinking just maybe but not sure, that when north korea do the testing maybe they did it underground? that is why it takes a while before the effect surface to the land above?

Answer 5

The blast caused by North Korea could afftected and changed the tectonic plates underground the world resulting to earthquakes. Thus, its testing must be condemned to stop it from it nuclear arms build-up which is a menace to world stability.

Answer 6

The amount of energy required to set off even a small earthquake would require hundreds, if not thousands of nukes the size of the North Korea test, not to mention the impossibility of placing them in the right places.

Answer 7

It is a slim possibility can't 100% say it is not but I myself think not for the nuclear test is being considered a flop-not much to it to cause this shift.

Answer 8

Probably not. If it was, it would have had an earlier on in the week. But you never know. Maybe the test knocked one of the plate's out of line?

Answer 9

Japan had an earthquake the day after the test too. They are not related at all. Japan has 9000 earthquakes annually so the odds were in their favor of having one.

Answer 10

No. Having said that, a savvy nation/org could conceivably -- me thinks -- load a submarine up with H-bombs, sneak under the Hawaiian shelf and tumble a hunk of island that would result in a 1KM wave into the US west coast. (the stuff of fiction)