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N. Korea's 2nd nuclear test site pinpointed in new study
2010/01/10 08:00 KST
By Sam Kim

SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- Two U.S.-based scientists say they've located the site of North Korea's second nuclear test held last year more precisely than ever before, pinpointing it near Mount Mantap just 2 kilometers off the place where the first test had been conducted in 2006.

Lianxing Wen, a geophysics professor at the State University of New York in Stonybrook, and his graduate student, Hui Long, located the epicenter of the North's second nuclear test on May 5 last year with a margin of error of only 140 meters, compared with 3.8 kilometers achieved by the U.S. Geological Survey last year, according to their joint study published in the January-February edition of Seismological Research Letters of the Seismological Society of America.