Underground Nuclear Explosion Related Seismicity

2000 ◽  
pp. 217-264
Author(s):  
S. K. Guha
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Underground Nuclear Explosion

Geologic effects of the Rainier underground nuclear explosion : a summary progress report of U.S. Geological Survey investigations

1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Diment ◽  
V.R. Wilmarth ◽  
R.E. Wilcox ◽  
Alfred Clebsch ◽  
G.E. Manger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Underground Nuclear Explosion

Genotoxicity and cytotoxicity assay of water sampled from the underground nuclear explosion site in the north of the Perm region (Russia)

2005 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana I. Evseeva ◽  
Stanislav A. Geras'kin ◽  
Ida I. Shuktomova ◽  
Anatoliy I. Taskaev
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Cytotoxicity Assay ◽  
Underground Nuclear Explosion ◽  
The North ◽  
Perm Region

Radioecological studies at the Kraton-3 underground nuclear explosion site in 1978–2007: a review

2009 ◽  
Vol 100 (12) ◽  
pp. 1092-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ramzaev ◽  
A. Mishin ◽  
V. Golikov ◽  
T. Argunova ◽  
V. Ushnitski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Underground Nuclear Explosion

Quantitative assessment to the impact of InSAR ionospheric and tropospheric corrections on source parameter modelling: application to the 4th nuclear test, North Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 224 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Meng Zhu ◽  
Qiming Zeng ◽  
Jian Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Focal Mechanism ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Nuclear Test ◽  
Focal Mechanism Solution ◽  
Atmospheric Effects ◽  
Underground Nuclear Explosion ◽  
Tropospheric Corrections ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARY Although many studies have revealed that the atmospheric effects of electromagnetic wave propagation (including ionospheric and tropospheric water vapour) have serious impacts on Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) measurement results, atmospheric corrections have not been thoroughly and comprehensively investigated in many well-known cases of InSAR focal mechanism solutions, which means there is no consensus on whether atmospheric effects will affect the InSAR focal mechanism solution. Moreover, there is a lack of quantitative assessment on how much the atmospheric effect affects the InSAR focal mechanism solution. In this paper, we emphasized that it was particularly important to assess the impact of InSAR ionospheric and tropospheric corrections on the underground nuclear explosion modelling quantitatively. Therefore, we investigated the 4th North Korea (NKT-4) underground nuclear test using ALOS-2 liters-band SAR images. Because the process of the underground nuclear explosion was similar to the volcanic magma source activity, we modelled the ground displacement using the Mogi model. Both the ionospheric and tropospheric phase delays in the interferograms were investigated. Furthermore, we studied how the ionosphere and troposphere phase delays could bias the estimation of Mogi source parameters. The following conclusions were drawn from our case study: the ionospheric delay correction effectively mitigated the long-scale phase ramp in the full-frame interferogram, the standard deviation decreased from 1.83 to 0.85 cm compared to the uncorrected interferogram. The uncorrected estimations of yield and depth were 8.44 kt and 370.33 m, respectively. Compared to the uncorrected estimations, the ionospheric correction increased the estimation of yield and depth to 9.43 kt and 385.48 m, while the tropospheric correction slightly raised them to 8.78 kt and 377.24 m. There were no obvious differences in the location estimations among the four interferograms. When both corrections were applied, the overall standard deviation was 1.16 cm, which was even larger than the ionospheric corrected interferogram. We reported the source characteristics of NKT-4 based on the modelling results derived from the ionospheric corrected interferogram. The preferred estimation of NKT-4 was a Mogi source located at 129°04′22.35‘E, 41°17′54.57″N buried at 385.48 m depth. The cavity radius caused by the underground explosion was 22.66 m. We reported the yield estimation to be 9.43 kt. This study showed that for large-scale natural deformation sources such as volcanoes and earthquakes, atmospheric corrections would be more significant, but even if the atmospheric signal did not have much complexity, the corrections should not be ignored.

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