Can North Korea's Nuclear Tests Cause Earthquakes in Mexico?

[Tio Barnabe]

Is it possible that the Earth Quake in Mexico is the result of North Korea's last nuclear test? What can physics say about it?

Unfortunately, textbooks on physics usually don't cover the physics of the interior of our planet. Thus, the above question.

 

[Ophiolite]

Almost certainly not. The interlinked nature of fault systems mean that an earthquake along one fault can so rearrange stresses that other earthquakes are triggered nearby. After-shocks are one example of this. However, such relationships are local. There is no practical way in which a comparatively small event in Korea could trigger a quake an ocean away.

 

[Tio Barnabe]

Ok. Thank you.

 

[Vanadium 50]

There is no practical way in which a comparatively small event in Korea could trigger a quake an ocean away.

And two weeks later.

 

[jim mcnamara]

Type II errors Vanadium?

 

[davenn]

Unfortunately, textbooks on physics usually don't cover the physics of the interior of our planet. Thus, the above question.

cuz you are probably looking at the wrong physics textbooks

try solid Earth geophysics

 

[fresh_42]

The two solar flair's, last week, that injected energy into the Earth's magnetic and electrical system probably has a larger impact than one nuclear device being detonated.

I hope you don't mean impact to tectonics here, because this would be nonsense.

 

[davenn]

There is a person on Youtube who says the plates wiggle and move with earthquakes and when one side moves up down or laterally the plate portions on the opposite side of the plate can trigger another quake.

if you mean opposite side as in the other side of the fault line of a plate boundary then yes ... opposite side of the plate, as in 1/2
a world away, then NO, that is incorrect

Because our Earth sciences are more focused on that after effect of any event, we can't theorize or hypothesize what might be causing any said quake,

this is also incorrect !

The two solar flair's, last week, that injected energy into the Earth's magnetic and electrical system probably has a larger impact than one nuclear device being detonated.

Solar flares yes they did, but are still unlikely to have caused any tectonic changes

you really need to start reading up on some decent geology/tectonics text and get up to date with your ideas

Dave

 

[davenn]

to @Tio Barnabe and to @Fiery

once good book read is

https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Solid_Earth.html?id=PifkAotvTroC&redir_esc=y

this was one of my prescribed textbooks when I was doing geology at uni

 

[ISamson]

I hope you don't mean impact to tectonics here, because this would be nonsense.

If a tectonic plate was damaged, it would be a global environmental catastrophe! Because there would be even more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions everywhere. Huge mountain chains or canyons would form on the borders of tectonic plates or just constant, regular, devastating quakes.
I hope @Fiery did not mean that!

 

[Ophiolite]

If a tectonic plate was damaged, it would be a global environmental catastrophe! Because there would be even more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions everywhere. Huge mountain chains or canyons would form on the borders of tectonic plates or just constant, regular, devastating quakes.
I hope @Fiery did not mean that!

It does not make much sense to apply the word "damaged" to tectonic plates. Tectonic plates undego deformation, erosion, growth, fragmentation, combination and destruction (if they are oceanic plates), but none of these processes constitute damage.

I presume by damage you mean some major "change" to the plate structure. Such hypothetical "damage" would very likely produce increased seismic and volcanic activity, but there is no reason to suppose this would result in a global increase in such events. The suggestion of huge mountain chains forming etc. is unwarranted speculation.

 

[ISamson]

I presume by damage you mean some major "change" to the plate structure.

Yes.

 

[davenn]

I presume by damage you mean some major "change" to the plate structure

Yes.

so what sort of major change did you have in mind ?

 

[ISamson]

so what sort of major change did you have in mind ?

I meant like cracks, sudden movements and such.

 

[davenn]

I meant like cracks, sudden movements and such.

ummm pretty vague ...
the plates are doing that all the time with every earthquake. The really big quakes M8.0 and bigger can easily cause motion along
a fault line of up to 20 metres. sometimes that motion is on a known fault. Sometimes it rips through rock that hasn't faulted before.

will dig up some photos for you