A Nuclear Test Monitoring Agency has reported two seismic events in North Korea. Both the CTBTO Agency and South Korea said early analysis suggested it was unlikely the tremors were man-made. South Korea’s meteorological agency said early indications suggested it was a natural earthquake because no soundwaves specific to man-made tremors had been identified. The agency put the tremor at magnitude 3.0.<br /><br />China’s earthquake administration initially announced it had detected a magnitude 3.4 tremor in North Korea at a depth of ‘zero kilometres’. Said to be a ‘suspected explosion’, it raised fears Kim Jong-un’s regime had conducted another nuclear test.<br /><br />In recent months, a number of tremors have been detected in the isolated state, with the most recent being earlier in September. All have been considered indications of nuclear tests, raising tensions and prompting a fresh round of United Nations sanctions.<br /><br />The earthquake on Saturday (September 23) was detected in North Hamgyong Province, which is also the location of the country’s Punggyeri nuclear site, according to South Korea’s meteorological agency.<br /><br />China’s Foreign Ministry gave no immediate statement, but state media outlets and social media widely reported the news.<br /><br />Magnitude-3.4 zero-depth quake detected in North Korea, at roughly the same site as shallow quake on Sept. 3 that was caused by nuclear test pic.twitter.com/dkMhaipJv2— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) September 23, 2017<br />
