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I wonder what the US Navy is testing!



The French Navy starting another round of nuclear testing might be more likely for this one, it's only 20 years since their last ones.

We should get greenpeace to send the Rainbow Warrior III over.


Not a nuclear test because there's no initial transient.

This is more like a forced resonance - the geological equivalent of an organ pipe.

So I'd guess there's a pipe-like feature or a chamber in the area (an old magma tunnel? - it doesn't have to be empty, it just needs to have a constant density significantly different to its surroundings) and "noise" from moving magma made it to ring.

With a 17s period and 6km/s velocity, for lambda/4 resonance the pipe/chamber would be around 30km long - which looks not-completely-insanely-wrong, possibly.


Lets hope they don't sink it like they did the first one.


Too easy to detect nuclear testing these days, doubt its that


Is it? I thought sysmographics were how we knew about North Korean testing. I assume a deep underwater test would be just as hard.

But as another more knowledgeable poster mentioned, it doesn't fit the profile.


There is an extensive monitoring system in place to enforce the CTBT (Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty). You can find the stations here:

https://www.ctbto.org/map/ (check 'international monitoring system' on the right side)

As you can see, there are seismic station for detecting underground tests (the signal differs from earthquake signals if you look at stations around the world), acoustic and hydroacoustic stations for detecting tests in the atmosphere and oceans, and isotope detection to differentiate between any kind of explosion and a nuclear one (which leave the same signal in the other detectors).

The stations have a fantastic global coverage and have been measuring for quite a while. The data set is now also given to the scientific community for all sorts of purposes.

https://www.ctbto.org/verification-regime/potential-civil-an...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparatory_Commission_for_the...




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