Did the underground testing crack the earth or cause the recent earthquakes?
2006-10-18 05:24:11 · 9 answers · asked by tinamagnifica 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Hi. Probably not. The blast was not large enough. Compared to plate motion it was insignificant.
2006-10-18 05:28:32 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goodness gracious. People have no idea the scale of the Earth.
The NK nuke produced a Ritchter 4 Earth quake. There are dozens of Richter 4 earthquakes around the world every week.
A Richter 5 is 10 times as strong, a 6 is 100 and 7 is 1000.
The recent Indian Ocean earthquake was a 9. That is equivalent to 100,000 Korean bombs going off together.
Did the Earth crack, back then? It moved a lot of water, but then the Earth itself is thousands of times more massive than the oceans.
People have no comprehension of what exactly is under their feet. It's like communications and air travel have shrunk the world in people's minds.
It's 6 billion trillion tons - 6 with 21 noughts on the end. It's 8000 miles thick with a 3000 mile ball of iron at its center.
The NK bomb was like a fart in the Empire State Building. A little bit of a smell in the immediate vicinity.
2006-10-18 15:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not very likely as the US and USSR tested weapons thousands of times more powerful and total tests by just those two countries is about 2000.
2006-10-18 12:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ren Hoek 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they are willing to pollute their own underground water supply. Them idiots! Don't know why they need to do the testing for? One big mess left behind!
2006-10-18 12:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not nearly as damaging as the amount of nuclear testing the US conducts anually
2006-10-18 18:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by Carson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About halfway from zero to nothing.
2006-10-18 14:21:10 · answer #6 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one has any real proof, but it certainly is a possibility.
2006-10-18 12:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zip.
2006-10-18 13:51:38 · answer #8 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i doubt we will ever be told
2006-10-18 12:31:28 · answer #9 · answered by antiekmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋