One Step Closer to Disaster
I studied Geology in college, and live in California, so naturally I get direct feeds showing recent world wide seismic activity from the USGS. First thing in the morning I check this feed, and noticed an event in North Korea, not a very common place for recent earthquakes. Link Then as news began to pour out over this particular event, the facts became known to me.
At 01:35:27 (UTC) today, the USGS reported a seismic event measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale in the region of North Korea. Link
The USGS later reports the activity as being, “shallow event or very close to the surface”.
The Korean Earthquake Research Centre in Daejeon, reported this event took place 10 miles northwest of Hwadaeri.
Shortly after this siesmicity was recorded, North Korea announced it’s first nuclear test.
One Korean news person comments, "It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the (North Korean army) and people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defence capability."
Abe also mentions that Japan and the United States would step up work on a missile defense system, and called for tough U.N. action.
The US imposed sanctions on North Korea today banning military and luxury items, freezing military weapons programs assets, and to inspect all cargo coming to and from the country.
A Security Counsil says that taking military action is far from anybodies mind.
The entire AP article can be read from the Comcast news page by clicking the link below.