A small natural earthquake was detected in North Korea today.
South Korean authorities attribute the tremor to seismic instability lingering in the area since North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test in 2017
- magnitude 2.5
- in Hamgyong Province, the location of North Korea's shuttered Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site
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