After a magnitude 4.6 earthquake on the Richter scale that was felt as far as Tehran, social media tied the phenomenon to the current conflict between Iran and Israel, speculating about the possibility that the Iranian government was conducting underground nuclear tests.
What we know about the Iran earthquake
Minutes after the first earthquake, a smaller one reached Israel, fueling speculation about Iran’s nuclear tests through messages that speculated about nuclear tests 10 kilometers beneath the surface to avoid radiation exposure on the surface.
The messages referenced the case of a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, and another smaller one that occurred minutes later and was reported in North Korea at the end of 2017. The origin of that earthquake turned out to be an underground nuclear test, with the second earthquake being the result of the collapse that occurred in the facilities shortly after the detonation.
The Iranian government has denied the speculations, stating that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is signed and ratified by them. Furthermore, the scientific community asserts that an underground nuclear explosion of this nature poses a technical and logistical challenge that is far beyond Iran’s current capabilities. Additionally, based on the earthquake’s characteristics and the depth of its epicenter, similar tests conducted by experts confirm that it is much more likely to have been a conventional earthquake in an area accustomed to them.
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