Satellite Images of North Korea Show Landslides at Nuclear Test Site
The three analysts — Frank V. Pabian, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.,
and Jack Liu — said the wide disturbances appeared to include numerous landslides throughout the rugged site “and beyond.”
They added that they could find no evidence of a surface crater
that would have formed if the cavern carved out within the mountain by the blast’s violence and high temperatures had suddenly collapsed.
Analysts peering at satellite images of North Korea after the latest nuclear test reported Tuesday
that they had spotted many landslides and wide disturbances at the country’s test site, in the North’s mountainous wilds.
“These disturbances are more numerous and widespread than what we have seen from any of the five tests North Korea previously conducted,” three experts
wrote in an analysis for 38 North, a website run by the U. S.-Korea Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
If correct, that is roughly six times more powerful than the North’s test of September 2016,
and eight times larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
