North Korean Nuclear Tests Could Trigger Volcano Eruption | Mysterious Universe
While world leaders and wannabe US leaders continue to squabble over whether North Korea recently tested a nuclear device, seismologists voiced their concerns that the location of the real, alleged or future underground tests is very near to Mount Paekdu (Baekdu), an active volcano with a deadly history. Can a nuclear explosion trigger an eruption there?
Should North Koreans be more worried about an eruption than an explosion? Should China? Mount Paekdu is 72 miles from the Punggye-ri grounds where it appears the last underground test took place. The volcano is on the border between North Korea and China. The last major eruption of the 9,000 ft. volcano occurred in 1903 but the one every talks about is the “Millenium eruption” of 946 AD. Multiple ancient history books mention it with stories like the explosion being heard 450 km away in the capital where the emperor had an apocalyptic panic attack and pardoned all convicts in the prisons. Seismologists consider it to be one of the largest eruptions in the past 2000 years.
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Great! Like they're not already dangerous enough....let's trigger a volcano to top it off!
While world leaders and wannabe US leaders continue to squabble over whether North Korea recently tested a nuclear device, seismologists voiced their concerns that the location of the real, alleged or future underground tests is very near to Mount Paekdu (Baekdu), an active volcano with a deadly history. Can a nuclear explosion trigger an eruption there?
An underground nuclear explosion test near an active volcano constitutes a direct threat to the volcano. This study examined the dynamic stress changes of the magma chamber of Baekdusan [Changbaishan] that can be induced by hypothetical North Korean nuclear explosions.
That’s a big “Oh yeah!” from researchers led by seismology professor Hong Tae-kyung of Yonsei University, whose study, published in Nature, modeled the effects of underground nuclear tests and found that explosions with magnitudes of between 5 and 7.6 could induce overpressure in the magma chamber and trigger an eruption. The North Korean explosion recorded in January had a magnitude of 5.1.
Should North Koreans be more worried about an eruption than an explosion? Should China? Mount Paekdu is 72 miles from the Punggye-ri grounds where it appears the last underground test took place. The volcano is on the border between North Korea and China. The last major eruption of the 9,000 ft. volcano occurred in 1903 but the one every talks about is the “Millenium eruption” of 946 AD. Multiple ancient history books mention it with stories like the explosion being heard 450 km away in the capital where the emperor had an apocalyptic panic attack and pardoned all convicts in the prisons. Seismologists consider it to be one of the largest eruptions in the past 2000 years.
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Great! Like they're not already dangerous enough....let's trigger a volcano to top it off!