Map: Map of UNTs at the Novaya Zemlya Test Site, FSU

 
Table 4: Borovoye archive data for underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya Test Sites, 1967-1990 tex2html_wrap_inline339
Test Date Time Lat. Long. m tex2html_wrap_inline359 Inst. Comments
No. Year-Mo-Da (hr:mn:sec) ( tex2html_wrap_inline361 N)( tex2html_wrap_inline361 E)(P)type tex2html_wrap_inline365
276 1967-10-21 04:59:58.49 73.390 54.810 5.98 KODB/M salvo exp. in two tunnels
293 1968-11-07 10:02:05.49 73.387 54.858 6.13 KODB/M salvo exp. in single tunnel
309 1969-10-14 07:00:06.61 73.390 54.787 6.18 KODB/M 3 explosions
327 1970-10-14 05:59:57.57 73.304 55.027 6.79 KODB/M 3 explosions 150-1500 kt
345 1971-09-27 05:59:55.75 73.393 54.920 6.67 KODB/M 4 explosions 150-1500 kt
368 1972-08-28 05:59:56.87 73.388 54.847 6.49 KODB/M 4 explosions
385 1973-09-12 06:59:54.81 73.314 55.056 6.97 KODB/M hightest yield Soviet UNT
388 1973-09-27 07:00:01.12 70.731 53.827 5.89 KODB/SS Southern Test Site
392 1973-10-27 07:00:00.61 70.780 54.026 6.98 KODB/M/SS Southern Test Site
427 1975-08-23 08:59:58.25 73.334 54.682 6.55 TSG salvo exp. with 8 explosions
430 1975-10-18 08:59:59.40 70.816 53.744 6.75 TSG 2 expls. shaft Yu-6N
431 1975-10-18 Single explosion in shaft Yu-7 simultaneously with test #430 both Sothern Test Site
432 1975-10-21 11:59:58.03 73.307 55.010 6.60 SS/TSG 5 explosions
449 1976-09-29 02:59:57.70 73.360 54.871 5.83 SS/TSG 2 expls. reference for JED
450 1976-10-20 07:59:58.07 73.398 54.812 4.98 SS/TSG 4 explosions
467 1977-09-01 02:59:57.97 73.339 54.619 5.66 TSG 4 explosions
471 1977-10-09 10:59:58.12 73.409 54.927 4.36 SS/TSG single explosion 0.001-20 kt
491 1978-08-10 07:59:57.93 73.291 54.883 6.00 SS/TSG 6 explosions
499 1978-09-27 02:04:58.60 73.349 54.676 5.63 SS/TSG 7 explosions
531 1979-09-24 03:29:59.75 73.343 54.672 5.77 TSG 3 explosions
536 1979-10-18 07:09:58.75 73.316 54.816 5.79 SS/TSG 4 explosions
557 1980-10-11 07:09:57.47 73.336 54.940 5.76 SS 7 explosions
580 1981-10-01 12:14:57.23 73.304 54.818 5.97 TSG 4 explosions
599 1982-10-11 07:14:58.63 73.339 54.608 5.58 TSG 4 explosions
616 1983-08-18 16:09:58.90 73.354 54.974 5.91 SS 5 explosions
624 1983-09-25 13:09:58.22 73.328 54.541 5.77 SS/TSG 4 explosions
651 1984-10-25 06:29:58.12 73.355 54.990 5.82 SS/TSG 4 explosions
682 1987-08-02 02:00:00.20 73.326 54.602 5.82 SS/TSG 5 explosions
697 1988-05-07 22:49:58.34 73.314 54.553 5.58 SS/TSG 3 explosions
705 1988-12-04 05:19:53.30 73.366 55.001 5.89 SS/TSG 5 explosions
715 1990-10-24 14:57:58.45 73.331 54.757 5.70 SS/TSG 8 expls. last Sovie test


tex2html_wrap_inline339 Test No.=unique test id number given in Mikhailov et al. (1996) for nuclear tests in USSR; Body-wave magnitude, m tex2html_wrap_inline359 (P), from Marshall et al. (1994); location and origin time from Marshall et al. (1994) and Richards (2000). tex2html_wrap_inline365 Inst. type= instrument used; KODB= KOD low-gain system; KODM= KOD high-gain system; SS=STsR-SS system; TSG=STsR-TSG system. tex2html_wrap_inline421 salvo exp.= salvo explosion means two or more separate explosions where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length.


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Won-Young Kim, May 2001