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