January 2016 North Korean nuclear test information
Detonation on 6 January 2016
January 2016 North Korea nuclear test
Information
Country
North Korea
Test site
41°18′29″N129°02′56″E / 41.308°N 129.049°E / 41.308; 129.049,[1] Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, Kilju County
Period
10:00:01, 6 January 2016 (2016-01-06T10:00:01) UTC+08:30 (01:30:01 UTC)[1]
Number of tests
1
Test type
Underground
Device type
Hydrogen according to the DPRK, fission according to the South Korean National Intelligence Service
Max. yield
Not announced by DPRK
Estimated at least 7 kilotons of TNT (29 TJ) similar to the 2013 test due to the same magnitude scale as the previous test.
10 kilotons of TNT (42 TJ) (Estimation from Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources)[2] – which was revised from initial estimates of 14 kilotons of TNT (59 TJ)[3]
7.1–15.5 kilotons of TNT (30–65 TJ) kt University of Science and Technology of China[4]
Test chronology
← 2013 test
September 2016 test →
2km 1.2miles
South
West
East
North portal
6
5
4
3
2
1
Location of North Korea's nuclear tests[5][6] 1: 2006; 2: 2009; 3: 2013; 4: 2016-01; 5: 2016-09; 6: 2017;
V
North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear detonation on 6 January 2016 at 10:00:01 UTC+08:30. At the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County, an underground nuclear test was carried out. The United States Geological Survey reported a 5.1 magnitude earthquake from the location;[7] the China Earthquake Networks Center reported the magnitude as 4.9.
North Korean media announced that the country had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in ″self-defence against US″.[8] However, third-party experts as well as officials and agencies in South Korea questioned North Korea's claims and contend that the device was more likely to have been a fission bomb such as a boosted fission weapon. Such weapons use hydrogen fusion to produce smaller, lighter warheads suitable for arming a delivery device such as a missile, rather than to attain the destructive power of a true hydrogen bomb.[9]
^ ab"M5.1 Nuclear Explosion – 22 km ENE of Sungjibaegam, North Korea". United States Geological Survey. 6 January 2016. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
^Nordkorea: BGR registriert vermutlichen Kernwaffentest – BGR, 6 Jan 2016
^"温联星研究组". Archived from the original on 19 September 2016.
^"Search Results". USGS.
^"North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Analysis Reveals Its Potential for Additional Testing with Significantly Higher Yields". 38North. 10 March 2017.
^"USGS M0+ earthquakes in North Korea, 2016". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
^North Korea claims successful hydrogen bomb test in 'self-defence against US' The Guardian, 6 January 2016.
^Declan Butler; Elizabeth Gibney (8 January 2016). "What kind of bomb did North Korea detonate?". nature. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
and 21 Related for: January 2016 North Korean nuclear test information
East North portal 6 5 4 3 2 1 NorthKorea conducted its fourth nuclear detonation on 6 January2016 at 10:00:01 UTC+08:30. At the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test...
South West East North portal 6 5 4 3 2 1 The 2006 NorthKoreannucleartest was the detonation of a nuclear device conducted by NorthKorea on October 9...
development of nuclear weapons and the nation's economy, and the planned date for the fifth nucleartest launch was announced. On 22 June 2016, NorthKorea successfully...
2miles South West East North portal 6 5 4 3 2 1 The 2009 NorthKoreannucleartest was the underground detonation of a nuclear device conducted on Monday...
help NorthKorea develop a peaceful nuclear energy program, including the training of nuclear scientists. Later, China, after its nucleartests, similarly...
accepted to have been nucleartests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2017. Since the 1950s, NorthKorea has been interested in nuclear technology and has pursued...
Punggye-ri nuclear site where a test was conducted in 2013. On January 6, 2016, NorthKorea announced that it conducted a successful test of a hydrogen...
There have been a number of NorthKorean missile tests. NorthKorea has also fired a number of short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, in what have...
NorthKorea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula...
resolve the confrontation on the Korean peninsula (known as the Korean conflict). At the same time, NorthKorea acquired nuclear weapons, adding to the concerns...
The Korean War was fought between NorthKorea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when NorthKorea invaded South Korea and ceased...
against NorthKorea. Currently, many sanctions are concerned with NorthKorea'snuclear weapons programme and were imposed after its first nucleartest in...
party to the NPT, although NorthKorea acceded to the NPT in 1985, then withdrew in 2003 and conducted its first nucleartest in 2006. One critique of the...
The Korean conflict is an ongoing conflict based on the division of Korea between NorthKorea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic...
Global Information
