(TRUNEWS) Scientists are warning that North Korea’s nuclear tests could trigger a volcanic eruption at Mount Paektu. The mountain is on the border with China and measures more than 9,000 feet high.
Experts claim that if it goes off it will be catastrophic, like the one in 1903, according to the Daily Mirror. In the year 946, a volcano produced the pyroclastic flow that was 1,000 feet thick and coated parts of northern Japan. It was declared one of the most violent events in human history.
Seismologists say there is increased seismic activity – and the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility is only 70 miles away. Last month the government conducted an underground nuclear test there, which triggered a 5.1 magnitude quake that was felt 100 miles from the site.
Volcanic lightning is seen at an eruption of Mount Sakurajima, in this photo taken from Tarumizu city, Kagoshima prefecture, southwestern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 5, 2016. A Japanese volcano about 50 km (30 miles) from a nuclear plant erupted on Friday, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said, sending fountains of lava into the night sky. Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo
“Strong ground motions induce large dynamic stress changes that may disturb the magma chamber of a volcano, thus accelerating the volcanic activity,” said a group of South Korean scientists, who published a paper in Nature.
Earlier this month, a volcano erupted in Japan near a nuclear power plant. Experts said the area is a “ring of fire” because a seismic band of fault lines and more than 100 volcanos are located there, along the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
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