The rise, collapse, and compaction of Mt. Mantap from the 3 September 2017 North Korean nuclear test

• Main Authors: Wang, Teng, Shi, Qibin, Nikkhoo, Mehdi, Wei, Shengji, Barbot, Sylvain, Dreger, Douglas, Bürgmann, Roland, Motagh, Mahdi, Chen, Qi-Fu
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Collapse; Nuclear Test
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92266; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49923
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Surveillance of clandestine nuclear tests relies on a global seismic network, but the potential of spaceborne monitoring has been underexploited. We used satellite radar imagery to determine the complete surface displacement field of up to 3.5 meters of divergent horizontal motion with 0.5 meters of...