'I have never seen such a large displacement caused by human activity'.
An underground detonation, triggered by North Korea in September 2017, was so powerful that it shifted Mount Mantap upwards and outwards by many feet. Researchers conducted aThe country is known for its secrecy, but less than a year after the blast, a study published in the journalwas able to reveal the impact of the event. Beyond shifting the mountain up several feet, the blast also caused seismic activity of 6.3 magnitude. This also caused the top of the mountain to sink by 1.6 ft .
"I have mapped surface displacement from many geodynamic processes such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions, landslides, but I have never seen such a large displacement caused by human activity," study co-author Teng Wang, a remote-sensing and geodesy researcher at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore,The Democratic People's Republic of Korea became the first country to remove themselves from the Treaty on...
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