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2008-03-26 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Skidmark 2008-03-26 07:42|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Test range for missiles. Not necessarily nukes.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-26 08:56|| 2008-03-26 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Whether or not they actually do have nukes, I think it's clear that they should.

Posted by Iblis 2008-03-26 12:19|| 2008-03-26 12:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Why dont you learn how to give a lat/long coord instead of "orange dots"

Move along, nothing to see here.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-03-26 13:36|| 2008-03-26 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Who should have nuclear weapons, Iblis - Taiwan or China?

Posted by lotp 2008-03-26 14:02|| 2008-03-26 14:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Huh? China has had nukes for years ... including the hydrogen bomb they first tested in 1967. Geez, folks.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/China/ChinaTesting.html

Posted by crosspatch 2008-03-26 14:04|| 2008-03-26 14:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Taiwan, of course. Take invasion off the table. China would be free to court Taiwan, but not to threaten her.

Posted by Iblis 2008-03-26 16:28|| 2008-03-26 16:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry you couldn't use the tool Sam.

Posted by Skidmark 2008-03-26 16:40|| 2008-03-26 16:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Sam and I can use Google Earth just fine. Coordinates would still be helpful.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-03-26 17:33|| 2008-03-26 17:33|| Front Page Top

#9 GUAM > just had quakin' early this morning shortly after 0600A. Officially, its a "5.4" but its initial tremblin' felt bwtn 6-7.0 magn - FIRST AFTERSHOCK, however, did feel like a FIVEER-PLUS, SECOND was mag THREE-OR-UNDER. I did obeserve CONCRETE RIPPLES in certain spots on a side the local PDN/DNA News Building here in Hagatna, facing the Guam Public Library, during the above big one.

The iconic PDN/DNA Building has been here in Hagatna since the early 1970's - I've told local Restaurant patrons that, iff they know whom the current owner or company-landlord is, for same to have the building checked for potential WEAK SPOTS in case of future event.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-26 18:47|| 2008-03-26 18:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Huh? China has had nukes for years

Yes, I know, Crosspatch. Iblis' comment was ambiguous tho so I asked.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-26 18:56|| 2008-03-26 18:56|| Front Page Top

#11 7.2 details
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008pvcl.php

Posted by Skidmark 2008-03-26 19:03|| 2008-03-26 19:03|| Front Page Top

#12 I typed in "Hotan, China", and got "Hetian", a village in Tibet on the southwest edge of the central plateau.

From all my time in the Air Force, I know most of China's nuke testing was done around Lop Nor, in the Gobi desert.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-03-26 19:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-26 19:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Waitasec. Nukes make a nice little poof underground, but that is nothing compared to the energy released in a 7.2 quake. Remember that the Richter scale is base-10 logarithmic scale.

That is, you can reproduce a 1.0 earthquake with 70 lbs. of TNT. A 2.0 earthquake with 1 metric TON of TNT. A 3.0 with 32 metric tons. A 4.0 with 1 kiloton of TNT.

5.0 == 32 kilotons.
6.0 == 1 megaton.
7.0 == 50 megatons, the size of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever built. (magnitude seen on seismographs reduced because it detonated 4 km in the atmosphere.)

A 7.2 would be the largest continent-cracker ever created. I can't even imagine how deep underground that sucker would have to be for it to not break through.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-26 19:13|| 2008-03-26 19:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Yep. Well, so OK.
More than 10 measured near surface quakes, in the last week, ranging from 2.7-7.2, in a geographic zone which imagery suggests has been used as a giant fart pan. Details reported from independent sources and collaborated by players in this council.

Oh, and the US 'admits' to sending nuclear triggers to Taiwan, just this week. Huh.

Maybe it's not nukes. Maybe they just punched a hole thru the crust.

Posted by Skidmark 2008-03-26 19:40|| 2008-03-26 19:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Moose. Look at the details.
Depth 14.2 miles (poorly constrained)
Location uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.6 km (4.1 miles); depth +/- 24.8 km (15.4 miles)
It wasn't a crust cracker. The measurement error puts it on the surface. Wonder which way the wind was blowing.

Posted by Skidmark 2008-03-26 19:59|| 2008-03-26 19:59|| Front Page Top

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