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Fault that runs from mexico up to northern california is long overdue for a big one. even though there's no way to pinpoint a major quake, seismologists do have the ability to forecast them by paying attention to small and moderate alerts that happen next to major fault lines. small quakes raise the risk of unleashing a big quake. for the past decade california and oregon have been building an early warning detection system, known as shake alert, but it's only halfway done. the idea is to use 1500 monitoring stations up and down the west coast to give scientists enough information that they ca...

And landed in tokyo last night. i thought when i left north korea after speaking with government officials and some statements from north korean media talking about the fact if the united states were to shift its longstanding position of refusing to acknowledge north korea as a nuclear power, then perhaps kim jong-un and his government is open to diplomacy. when they released those numbers showing kim jong-un looking over that miniaturized nuclear war head, i started to get a little nervous. it was a couple of hours later, the earthquake was detected. a massive 6.3 earthquake at a mountainous ...

Less than a day after pong yoing said it had a new hydrogen bomb. they claim it can be loaded onto a intercontinental ballistic missile. >> he's the executive secretary of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization. thank you for joining us. tell us. you have monitoring stations around the world. how did you first detect what happened? >> our international monitoring station which comprises 365 facilities around the world has detected a large size mieismic much larger than what was previously recorded in peninsula. nearly 6.59 compared to the one in 2016, 5.1. that is clearly a sit...

North korea hasn't put it an estimate of the yield yet. they believe it was 120 kilotons of tnt, significantly more powerful. and it took 11 minutes for the earthquake to reach their monitoring station in norway. it was so large it was felt by dozens of monitoring stations around the world, just to give you an indication of how far north korea has come, it's far more dramatic than any they've pulled off, and then reports of a second explosion. this is near the chinese border in north korea, a secondary seismic event as a result of this, 4.6 magnitude after the first event that was 6.3 n magnit...

Military situation on the korean peninsula, and along with top advisers decided to order his scientists to go ahead with the nuclear test. north korea confirming it was at the punggye-ri site, that 6.3 magnitude earthquake that was detected, also a second earthquake 4.6 that was detected about eight minutes later. north korea saying that the nuclear test went off flawlessly. they said specifically radiation has not been released into the environment. there is concern about that because of the fact there was a secondary seismic event, leading some analysts to wonder if there was some sort of a ...