September 2016 North Korean nuclear test

September 2016 North Korea nuclear test
September 2016 North Korea nuclear test
	Graphic from the United States Geological Survey showing the location of seismic activity at the time of the test
Information
Country	North Korea
Test site	41°17′53″N 129°00′54″E / 41.298°N 129.015°E, Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, Kilju County
Period	09:00, 9 September 2016 UTC+08:30 (00:30:01 UTC)
Number of tests	1
Test type	Underground
Max. yield	Exact yield was not announced by North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea); Estimated at about 10 kilotons of TNT (42 TJ) (South Korea estimation); 20–30 kilotons of TNT (84–126 TJ) (Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies); 25 kilotons of TNT (100 TJ) (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources); 11.9–23.7 kilotons of TNT (50–99 TJ) (University of Science and Technology of China);
Test chronology

2km
1.2miles

South

West

East

North portal

6

5

4

3

2

1

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Location of North Korea's nuclear tests
1: 2006; 2: 2009; 3: 2013; 4: 2016-01; 5: 2016-09; 6: 2017;

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The government of North Korea conducted a nuclear detonation on 9 September 2016, the fifth since 2006, at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, approximately 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Kilju City in Kilju County.