Chris from Highly Allochthonous -- say that five times fast -- has a great post summarizing the geological issues of the North Korean nuclear test (how deep? how do we know that? etc.) Check it out.
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News@Nature has another fabulous North Korea science update:
What more have we learned about last week's North Korean test?
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