North Korea detonates a Nuclear Weapon, which registers a 5.1 on the Richter Scale. The United States today has also registered a 5.1 Earthquake, in Tonopah, NV. Here lies a top-secret military test site, known as Area 52 and is theorized to be a nuclear test site.

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From the USGS.gov website:

Significant Earthquakes

M 5.1, 71km W of Tonopah, Nevada Wednesday, February 13, 2013 00:10:14 UTC (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nn00402688#summary)

M 5.1, 24km ENE of Sungjibaegam, North Korea Tuesday, February 12, 2013 02:57:51 UTC (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000f5t0#summary)

The Wikipedia Article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range

11 comments

11  MalZoclypso 2013-02-13

Duelling banjoes, nuclear style?

8  StopBanningMe4 2013-02-13

On a fault line. You know what we call that? An earthquake. Nice try though.

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2  ronintetsuro 2013-02-13

Unless Area 52 is home to both impressive drilling technology

Subterrenes are tunnel boring machines that have been confirmed as in use by entities in the US. Might account for the strange noises people have been hearing all over the states lately.

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1  ronintetsuro 2013-02-13

Drones ARE everywhere these days. ;)

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1  ronintetsuro 2013-02-13

That was a joke. Sorry, I thought the winking was obvious.

4  sdm1031 2013-02-13

So many things wrong with this. One, there's no point to "testing" nukes here. Secondly, there's seismic activity all around the world on a daily basis that reach a 5. Unless skynet has taken over and is dropping nukes all around the world, I'm fairly confident it's just normal behavior of our planet.

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php

2  [deleted] 2013-02-13

Good find! It looks like there were about six smaller quakes around that area too. What do you suppose that is? Mini nukes?

EDIT: Looks like it might just normal seismic activity along a fault line.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/118-38.html

1  bearskinrug 2013-02-13

I have no idea. I started thinking of it when I was looking news stories. I thought, you don't really hear a lot about earthquakes in Nevada. But you know what a there is a shit ton of in Nevada? Historical nuclear testing sites, and theoretical testing sites. So I googled the epicenter's location to Area 51. I quickly found out, unbeknownst to me, there is an Area 52, right where the earthquake was.

8  gypsydrifter 2013-02-13

12.4km underground probably not a test.

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1  gypsydrifter 2013-02-13

How deep are tests tend to be shallower than faults moving.

0  hanahou 2013-02-13

Well didn't you know if you dig deep enough you came out on that side of the world? Got to watch out for those backfires on the alien engine tech. I saw an Air Force guy come out of Area 51 afew years ago and stop at that little Alien store for a soda with his skin burnt redder than the American flag face and all. I don't think he was tanning either.