{"id":212345,"date":"2025-04-24T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/underground-nuclear-test-explosions-can-be-hidden-within-earthquake-signals-study-suggests"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:05:36","slug":"underground-nuclear-test-explosions-can-be-hidden-within-earthquake-signals-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/underground-nuclear-test-explosions-can-be-hidden-within-earthquake-signals-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Underground nuclear test explosions can be hidden within earthquake signals, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/underground-nuclear-test-explosions-can-be-hidden-within-earthquake-signals-study-suggests3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be \u201chidden\u201d by the signal generated by a natural earthquake?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible, according to a new review article <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.geoscienceworld.org\/bssa\/article\/doi\/10.1785\/0120250038\/653431\/The-Reduced-Detection-Rate-of-Signals-That-Are\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America<\/i> that contradicts the conventional wisdom about <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/explosion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">explosion<\/a> \u201cmasking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new analysis by Joshua Carmichael and colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory found that advanced signal detector technology that can identify a 1.7-ton buried explosion with a 97% success rate only has a 37% <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/success+rate\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">success rate<\/a> when <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/seismic+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">seismic signals<\/a> from that explosion are hidden within the seismic waveforms of an earthquake that happens within 100 seconds and about 250 kilometers away from the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be \u201chidden\u201d by the signal generated by a natural earthquake? It\u2019s possible, according to a new review article published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America that contradicts the conventional wisdom about explosion \u201cmasking.\u201d The new analysis by Joshua Carmichael and colleagues at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}