US seismologists said the 5.6 magnitude quake was recorded at a depth of 10km (six miles).
South Korea immediately convened a national security council meeting.
The tremor comes hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was pictured with what state media said was a new type of hydrogen bomb.
BBC
3/9/17
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- North Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb which can be loaded into the country's new intercontinental ballistic missile, the official Korean Central News Agency claimed today.
Questions remain over whether nuclear-armed Pyongyang has successfully miniaturised its weapons, and whether it has a working H-bomb, but KCNA said that leader Kim Jong-Un had inspected such a device at the Nuclear Weapons Institute.
It was a "thermonuclear weapon with super explosive power made by our own efforts and technology", KCNA cited Kim him as saying, and "all components of the H-bomb were 100 percent domestically made".
Pictures showed Kim in black suit examining a metal casing with two bulges.
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- Magnitude Mw 5.6
Region NORTH KOREA
Date time 2017-09-03 03:30:01.2 UTC
Location 41.34 N ; 129.08 E
- Depth 2 km
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347 km SE of Jilin, China / pop: 1,882,000 / local time: 11:30:01.2 2017-09-03
77 km SW of Ch’ŏngjin, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of / pop: 327,000 / local time: 12:00:01.2 2017-09-03
26 km NE of Sŭngjibaegam, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of / pop: 11,800 / local time: 12:00:01.2 2017-09-03
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Magnitude Mw 5.9
ReplyDeleteRegion CHINA-NORTH KOREA BORDER REGION
Date time 2017-09-03 03:30:01.3 UTC
Location 41.37 N ; 128.99 E
Depth 2 km
Distances 340 km SE of Jilin, China / pop: 1,882,000 / local time: 11:30:01.3 2017-09-03
81 km SW of Ch’ŏngjin, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of / pop: 327,000 / local time: 12:00:01.3 2017-09-03
21 km NE of Sŭngjibaegam, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of / pop: 11,800 / local time: 12:00:01.3 2017-09-03
An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude has struck North Korea near a known nuclear test site, Punggye-ri, suggesting that Pyongyang may have conducted its sixth nuclear test, Yonhap reports.
ReplyDeleteAn allegedly artificial quake was detected at 12:36pm in North Hamgyeong Province, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Yonhap reports.
"Today, at around 12:36pm, we detected an artificial earthquake measuring 5.6 magnitude... we are analyzing whether a nuclear test was conducted," South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, according to Yonhap.
The USGS reported the tremor as a 6.3 magnitude, while China's earthquake administration also said it detected a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in northeastern North Korea, calling it a "suspected explosion," Reuters reported.
The Pentagon and the JCS have urgently called for a crisis countermeasure, assuming that North Korea is most likely to have conducted a sixth nuclear test, the report added.
Seoul's presidential office has already accused its neighbor of conducting a nuclear test while president Moon Jae-in has convened a National Security Council meeting.
RT.COM
Two earthquakes were detected near North Korea, which may indicate Pyongyang's sixth nuclear test, according to Yonhap News.
ReplyDeleteOn Sunday Chinese seismological center has registered a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in North Korea that was a "suspected explosion", China's Earthquake Administration said. In a statement on its website the administration said that the tremor occured at a depth of zero kilometres.
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