Comments on: N. Korea tests 2nd nuke: Japanese press

By: sunbin

sunbin — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:43:39 +0000

in fact, i believe USGS has stations in various parts of the world. it is able to triangulate the epicenter by itself.

(same for japan — and it is much easier for japan to do so, given its proximity and sophisticated seismology tech)

By: sunbin

sunbin — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:40:48 +0000

p.s. the quake is 5.8 scale.
about 200km east of the coast between tokyo and sendai.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqc.....ustrb2.php

By: sunbin

sunbin — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:37:06 +0000

don’t believe NHK either. it embarassed itself more than SK NIS in July.

east of japan and NW of the SEA OF JAPAN is almost 180 degree apart w.r.t. tokyo.
i doubt if any geologist would make such mistake.

did NHK mention its source?

By: Zonath

Zonath — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:35:34 +0000

How long does it take to pinpoint the epicentre?

Not very long. Data-sharing between stations makes it fairly easy to triangulate the epicenter within a reasonable certainty fairly quickly. The USGS is putting the quake off the east coast of Japan, which is exactly the wrong direction for it to be coming from North Korea (unless they used a mini-sub to tow it out there) :P. Just a false alarm due to a ‘heightened sense of alertness’.

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:49:56 +0000

Reuters seems to have the most up-to-date news, about 13 minutes old now. Still nothing conclusive, though Japan had “unconfirmed information” that there might be a test today:

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso told a parliamentary panel that Japan had unconfirmed information that Pyongyang might conduct a second test on Wednesday, and NHK said Japanese government sources were checking reports of a tremor in North Korea.

However, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the same panel that Japan had no information that a test had been conducted.

By: Richardson

Richardson — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:47:47 +0000

I’ll go w/the USGS on this one.

By: North Korea goes for a second test at Asia-Watch

North Korea goes for a second test at Asia-Watch — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:44:48 +0000

[...] Oh wait, nevermind. Looks like the Japanese press was just a bit jittery about an Earthquake in Northern Japan. [...]

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:11:14 +0000

This is strange…the story first appeared on Yahoo! News about 30 mins ago…since then, there hasn’t been any significant update, nor anything new out of NHK or Kyodo….

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:45:57 +0000

How long does it take to pinpoint the epicentre? If in NK, it could very well have been a test, given how rare earthquakes are on the Korean Peninsula. If the epicentre was anywhere else, then it was probably just an earthquake….

(Just stating the bloody obvious, I suppose.)

By: Nomad

Nomad — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:44:15 +0000

The USGS is saying they didn’t detect anything either.