What's at 41.294 °N & 129.134 °E?
| According to the USGS seismology web site, the event in North Korea was at 41.294 °N and 129.134 °E with an uncertainty of The first two images below show the location relative to the Koreas, Japan, China, and Russia [1] and relative to north-east North Korea [2]. The next two images show the 10 km uncertainty [3], and the area within the 10 km uncertainty [4]. The last four images [5-8] I found by hunting around inside the area indicated by the 10 km uncertainty. There's not much up there, mostly a lot of mountainous forest, but if you zoom in you can find various structures. I'm not saying I've found anything interesting, I'm just saying that it is in itself interesting to be able to sit at my desk and look at the world like this. If you would like to navigate around Google Maps further, here are the links to the images shown above: Update - 2006-10-10 The center of the event has now been more accurately located at 41.278443 °N and 129.086534 °E (a few kilometers south of where I was looking yesterday), as shown by the black rectangle indicating the tunnel entrance in the upper-left portion of this image:
![]() Here's a 3D view from Google Earth:
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