Look how NK blew nukes and then Hawaii and New Zealand had earthquakes...
2006-10-17 14:01:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I live in New Zealand and we get Earthquakes all the time. You are trying to justify your belief without fully looking at the facts.
Just bear in mind that a moderate Earthquake has many times the energy of a small atomic bomb.
The energy imparted by the moon's gravity that produces the tides is thousands of times the energy of a small nuke, and the tides are happening all the time.
There is little doubt that the moon's effect on the Earth's crust must play a part in crustal stresses, and thus must have some influence on Earthquake incidence.
Have a look at:
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
It shows you all the current Earthquakes going on. See how many around the Pacific rim - dozens per day. Nothing to do with nukes.
The NK bomb produced a quake about 4 on Ritcher. Even in small New Zealand we get several 4's a week.
2006-10-17 14:20:38 · answer #1 · answered by nick s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So much so that the can sort of tell how thick the crust is. There is two types of waves in an earthquake. P waves can go anywhere. S waves are stopped by liquids such as magma. You put sensors all around and anything that has P and S waves means there is crust, but you get a sensor with just P waves, the S wave would have had to have hit liquid. Some of these sensors were on the other side of the planet.
2006-10-17 23:16:27 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
North Korea's nuke was so small that it would not have even caused an earthquake in the area. The average nuke is 10 times worse than what they set off and the radiation was very minimal.
2006-10-17 21:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. It's not geologically plausible to affect tectonic plates, not even with nuclear bombs.
There have been hundreds of tests done around the world. The NK nuke was just coincidentally close to a couple of earthquakes. That's all.
2006-10-17 21:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by noir 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, and when you fart there's another storm in the Pacific...
Hawaii is not on the same tectonic plate that NK is on. Neither is New Zealand. If your theory was right, then we should have seen activity in China or Japan as they are MUCH closer to NK.
2006-10-17 21:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by ssbn598 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
im not going to work it out
but a windy day (moving air mass) probably has more energy than north koreas tiny bomb.
2006-10-17 21:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by Answer guy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Good one! Why is such a fertile imagination going to waste? You should be writing Romance Novels.
2006-10-18 15:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is only coincidence.
2006-10-17 21:07:31 · answer #8 · answered by JBarleycorn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋