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VIENNA / DPRK NUCLEAR TEST II
STORY: VIENNA / DPRK NUCLEAR TEST II
TRT: 2.17
SOURCE: CTBTO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 FEBRUARY 2013, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, snow in Memorial Plaza at the UN Headquarters in Vienna with flags
2. Close up, North Korean flag in front of UN Headquarters in Vienna
3. Pan, from Memorial Plaza at the UN Headquarters in Vienna with flags onto UN building
4. Close up, UN Headquarters building in Vienna
5. Med shot, man outside in snow
6. Med shot, Executive Secretary of the CTBTO, Tibor Tóth, talking to journalists
7. Pan, from journalists to Executive Secretary of the CTBTO, Tibor Tóth and the Director of the International Data Centre, Lassina Zerbo
8. Pan, from journalists to Executive Secretary of the CTBTO, Tibor Tóth and the Director of the International Data Centre, Lassina Zerbo
9. Wide shot, journalists at the press briefing in the CTBTO media room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, Director, International Data Centre:
“At 2:57 UTC today we recorded an event in the peninsula in terms of the geographical region. We have roughly a magnitude of 4.9, which compared to the magnitude we have from the 2009 one, if you take it in a logarithmic scale, it will be roughly twice as big as what happened in 2009.”
11. Close up, photographer at the press briefing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary, CTBTO:
“In this millennia all the international community is respecting the no-test principle. No tests for no one in no environments at no time. The only country which breached that principle is North Korea for the third time.”
13. Med shot, cameramen
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo, Director, CTBTO International Data Centre: “Right now we are still monitoring, we are doing human analysis on the seismic data and we are waiting for the radionuclide product to see whatever important can come out as a smoking gun, if any.”
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Carter, Coordinator International Data Centre:
“These are the locations of the first automated bulletin that was produced within one hour. The blue ellipse is the air ellipse that we have determined from our automated system. The location is the blue star in the middle. Just for comparison, we also included the same location from that first automated bulletin for the 2006 event and the 2009 event. These are the stations that were in the second pass of automated analysis and these are the ones that were used to help locate the event.”
16. Close up, map of North Korea indicating location of the event determined from automated bulletin
17. Close up, world map showing primary and auxiliary seismic stations
18. Med shot, flags in front of UN Headquarters in Vienna
Experts from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) say the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s declared nuclear test was "roughly twice as big" as the last one in 2009.
At a press conference in Vienna, the Director of CTBTO’s International Data Centre, Lassina Zerbo said that the agency’s monitoring stations detected a seismic event with a magnitude of about 4.9 at 2.57 this morning (UTC). This would make it “roughly twice as big as what happened in 2009” when a previous North Korean nuclear test registered with a magnitude of 4.52, and much larger than the first test in 2006 that had a magnitude of 4.1.
The CTBTO’s first and preliminary automatic detections were made by up to 25 seismic stations around the world. The first data were made available to CTBTO Member States in little more than one hour, before the DPRK’s announcement.
Lassina said the agency was still monitoring and analysing the seismic data, and that “we are waiting for the radionuclide product to see whatever important can come out as a smoking gun, if any.”
The head of CTBTO, Tibor Tóth pointed out that the DPRK was “the only country” which breached an international consensus on respecting the no-nuclear-test principle, now for the third time.
CTBTO data expert Jerry Carter showed a graphic illustrating the location of the latest explosion in relation to the previous nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
According to the agency, the location of today’s event is largely identical with the two previous nuclear tests (Lat.: 41.313 degrees north; long.: 129.101 degrees east). As with the two previous nuclear tests, the signal was emitted from close to the surface.
The CTBTO is the international organization responsible for ensuring that no nuclear explosion goes undetected. Its verification technologies include seismic sensors that record shockwaves in the ground caused by underground nuclear explosions.
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