North Korea Nuclear Tests
North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests since 2006. The five tests since 2009 are located beneath the same mountain Mantap, while the first one on 2006 is located beneath a different mountain.
Source parameters of North Korea’s nuclear tests
Locations, origin times and yields of North Korea’s nuclear tests (NKNT) are reported by Yao et al., 2018a, SRL.
Table 1. Source parameters of North Korea’s nuclear tests
| Date | Time | Latitude | Longitude | Depth (m) | Yield (kt) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-10-09 | 01:35:27.998 | 41.2879 | 129.1083 | - | 0.48 |
| 2009-05-25 | 00:54:43.167 | 41.2955 | 129.0811 | 690 | 7.7±2.0 |
| 2013-02-12 | 02:57:51.322 | 41.2926 | 129.0760 | 490 | 13.5±4.1 |
| 2016-01-06 | 01:30:01.038 | 41.2993 | 129.0715 | 700 | 11.4±4.4 |
| 2016-09-09 | 00:30:01.353 | 41.3001 | 129.0776 | 790 | 18.0±5.9 |
| 2017-09-03 | 03:30:01.655 | 41.3018 | 129.0738 | 770 | 109.4±48.6 |
Locations and their uncertainties of the six tests and those of the portals are available in Google Earth KML format NKNT.kml.
North Korea’s September 3 2017 nuclear test
Main test
On 3 September 2017, North Korea conducted the sixth nuclear test, which is the largest. For details of the source characteristic of the 2017 test, see Yao et al., 2018a, SRL.
Collapse event 8.5 minutes after the 2017 test
The 2017 test had resulted in an on-site collapse of the Mt. Mantap. For details of the collapse event after the 2017 test, see Tian et al., 2018, GRL.
Seismicty Triggered by the 2017 test
The 2017 test triggered an earthquake swarm 8.4 km north of the nuclear test site. For details of the earthquake swarm after the 2017 test, see Tian et al., 2018, GRL and Yao et al., 2018b, SRL.
