The nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK) was detected by the sensors at the Romanian seismic stations of Cheia and
Bucovina, said the director of the National Institute for Earth Physics on
Monday.
"We registered the blast in the DPRK by the Cheia and
Bucovina sensors. It took place at 1:46 GMT (4:46 a.m. local time)" on Monday
morning, said Professor Gheorghe Marmureanu.
"It was detected very weakly here, but we knew from the very beginning it was
a nuclear test, since these tectonic moves look different," Marmureanu said.
Romania, a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, is monitoring
the effects of the underground nuclear test in Europe and Asia.
DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency announced on Monday that the
country had successfully conducted its first-ever underground nuclear test.
