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How can one discriminate between an underground explosion caused by a very large amount of conventional explosives, a fizzle, a fission device and a fusion device from seismic data? Pyongyang claimed yesterday to have detonated a fusion device; based on the data, how convincing is their claim?

by /u/Gargatua13013 in /r/askscience

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