Information message about undeground nuclear explosion made in North Korea on February 12, 2013 |
| The undeground nuclear explosion was made on February 12, 2013 in North Korea, it was registered by GS RAS. The registration time of explosion - 02:57 GMT (06:57 Moscow time) with magnitude 5.3. |
| Fragments of two component records with a explosion of digital stations Mys Schultz (∆ 2º) and Vladivostok (∆ 2.8º) are presented in Fig. 1. Fragments of records from digital stations Hailar (∆ 3.9º), Talaya (∆ 20.3º), Seimchan (∆ 25.7º), Tiksi (∆ 30.4º), Bilibino (∆ 33.4º) are presented in Fig. 2. |
Figure 1
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Figure 2
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| IPC GS RAS also has obtained information with parameters of this event from some seismological centers, these data are given in table 1: |
| Table 1 |
| NN |
Time in origin h-min-s (GMT) |
Lat degr. |
Lon degr. |
Depth km |
N s/st |
Ms/ N |
mb/ N |
I0 calc |
GAP |
Center | | 1 |
02-57-49.4 |
41.31 |
129.1 |
1 |
70 |
| 5.3/36 | 9.5-10 | 42 | IPC GS RAS | | 2 |
02-57-51.4 |
41.337 |
129.039 |
2 |
140 |
| 5.0 | | 44 | CSEM | | 3 |
02-57-51.5 |
41.306 |
129.065 |
1 |
138 |
| 5.1/270 | | 40 | NEIC | | 4 |
02-57-53.6 |
41.45 |
128.774 |
0 |
14 |
| 4.7 | | 338 | KNDC | |
| IPC GS RAS - Informational Processing Center, Geophysical Survey, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| CSEM - European - Mediterranean seismological center |
| NEIC - National Earthquakes Information Center of US Geological Service |
| KNDC - Kazakhstan National Data Center |
| Epicenter |
| Fig.3 presents with yellow star epicenter of this explosion made in north-eastern part of North Korea (the region of Pungeri nuclear test area), 78 km S-W of Ch'ongjin, 277 km N-E of Wonsan, 312 km S-W of Vladivostok, 380 km N-E of Pyongyang. |
Figure 3 |
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| Historical records |
| GS RAS registered nuclear explosions on October 9, 2006 with M=4.0 and on May 25, 2009 with M=5.0 in the same area of North Korea. |
