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Further consolidate his public support. at the same time, the message for north korean's adversaries and for the region is we're going to do this and there's nothing can you do to stop us, and if you even think about trying military action to stop us we now have a bigger and more powerful nuclear arsenal and we're prepared to use it if you take those steps. >> mike chinoy joining us on the phone from hong kong with great analysis. do stay with us. i want to go to cnn military analyst, retired lt. col. rick francona. rick, thank you for staying with us these many hours. i want to go back to tha...

Alongside officials in south korea. well, according to china's earthquake administration they detected two earthquakes. let me read you part of the statement. they're saying that the first earthquake was a suspected explosion. it occurred around 11:30 a.m. beijing time and it was a 6.3 magnitude quake, measuring at a depth of zero kilometers. the statement goes on to give the epicenter of being about 70 kilometers away from a city, about 390 kilometers away from pyongyang many then there was a second statement and this said there was a second earthquake of 4.6 magnitude with a depth, again, th...

Collapse. so we have had, i believe it was our ian lee saying that that could be referring to a collapse within a tunnel within the nuclear test site. of course, that has not been confirmed. i want to bring in mike chinoy who joins us on the line from hong kong to get his reaction. mike, if you can hear me, what do you make of this, this statement by the earthquake administration of china, detecting two earthquakes, calling the first one a suspected explosion and the second one a collapse? >> reporter: well, that does seem to be the case, that there were two separate tremors that were felt. th...

People are being told to prepare for this major announcement coming up, and so if we were still in north korea we would see what we saw just a few days ago when we were there for the announcement of the missile launch. students, grandparents, parents all gathered around televisions watching and likely cheering to the news that north korea has conducted this apparent sixth successful nuclear test, just one year after their fifth nuclear test. also note worthy, isha, last year the earthquake created by the north korean nuclear test was 5.3 magnitude, this year believed to be a 6.3 magnitude. so ...

Just explain to our viewers how significant this moment is. i mean this measured 6.3 according to the usgs. the last nuclear test that north korea did last year measured only 5.3. >> reporter: yeah, and that's a magnitude of 10 times when you go from 5.3 to 6.3. it isn't just one up the scale, it is a ten times scale. so from what we're hearing from the south korean meteorological agency, is saying that that's a ten times more powerful earthquake than it was last year. so you can translate that to saying that explosion was ten times more powerful, although we'll have to wait to hear from the e...