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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-59-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-59-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
A multi-technology analysis of the 2017 North Korean nuclear test
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Lars Ceranna
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Nima Nooshiri
GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Andreas Barth
KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Simone Cesca
GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Michaela Frei
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Ilona Grünberg
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Gernot Hartmann
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Karl Koch
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Christoph Pilger
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
J. Ole Ross
BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
Torsten Dahm
GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
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Short summary
On 3 September 2017 official channels of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea announced the successful test of a nuclear device. This study provides a
multi-technology analysis of the 2017 North Korean event and its aftermath using a wide array of geophysical methods (seismology, infrasound, remote sensing, radionuclide monitoring, and atmospheric transport modeling). Our results clearly indicate that the September 2017 North Korean event was in fact a nuclear test.
On 3 September 2017 official channels of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea announced...