The
devastating earthquakes (Bam and Zarand) that caused severe damages to
valuable human
lives and properties in Iran may have been caused by a covert nuclear
explosion.
According to leading international scientists, earthquakes and nuclear tests
are two sides of the same coin and a covert underground nuclear explosion
could trigger a powerful earthquake like the one in Bam and Zarand in Iran.
The
largest earthquake in the 20th century took place in Tanshan,
North East China on July 27, 1976 reaching 8.2 points on the Richter scale
causing tragic death of 800,000 people. This Chinese quake occurred
five days after the French nuclear bomb test in Mururao atoll in the
Pacific. Four days before the Chinese quake, the US also tested a nuclear
bomb. In October 1993, China exploded a nuclear devise at Lop Nor
range in the western Xingjiang province - an explosion caused by 80
kilotons explosives was detected by monitoring stations all over the world.
A few days later a powerful earthquake of 6.6 hit the test area.
Similar quakes were experienced in Iran’s Gilan province.
Various studies by British,
American, German, Japanese and Canadian scientists have warned that nuclear
tests are weakening the Earth’s crust, triggering earthquakes and causing
the poles to shift. Within a
microsecond of an underground nuclear test, billions of atoms involved in
the explosion release enormous amount of energy, pressure inside the
exploding device reach several thousand kilometers and temperatures as high
as 100 million degrees.
According to New Scientist
British and German geophysics believed that the 1978 earthquake in Tabas,
Iran, which killed more than 25,000 people, was likely to be triggered by an
underground nuclear explosion. British seismologists believed that the quake
in Iran was in fact a nuclear test gone awry. A Sweedish seismic laborotary
at Uppasala recorded a Soviet Nuclear test
of ten megatons at Semipalitsk just 36 hours before the earthquake.
Garry T. Whiteford, Geography Professior, University of Brunswick, Canada
studied the occurrence of nuclear tests and earthquakes in a detailed
manner. He studied all the
major earthquakes measuring over 5.8 on the Richter scale and compared
earthquake rate in the first half of the century before nuclear testing with
that for 1950-1988. While 68 large earthquakes of 5.8 occurred before
nuclear tests began, the rate went up to 127 per year due to nuclear
explosions.
The geographic
clustering patterns in the data, with a clustering of specific test dates
and sites revealed that it was a very dangerous coincidence. A study of
killer earthquakes that killed more than 1,000 people died since 1953 by
Whiteford also revealed that about 62.5 per cent of those earthquakes
occurred a few days after a nuclear test. Many struck only a day after a
detonation. Estimates show that more than a million people must have been
died in earthquakes related to nuclear tests. Cumulative effect of nuclear
tests can move the earth’s tectonic plates in a manner similar to how a
swarm of insects might start an elephant running.
