Testing, Testing, ...
Heading out for the next appointment in minutes, but …
Will Schryver @imetatronink
 Reiterating what I have been saying in recent days:
- Israel cannot launch a meaningful strike against Iran absent massive US operational collaboration.
- If the US assists Israel in striking Iran, all US military assets in the region — aircraft and bases — will be targeted.
10:08 PM · Oct 5, 2024
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Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW
Y'know, I was thinking that the only possible thing the Iranians could do to put a bolder underline on their message to Netanyahu would be to conduct a nuclear test.
Now we have a suspicious earthquake in the central Iranian desert.
At this point there are no coincidences.
10:54 PM · Oct 5, 2024
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I mean I'm not a seismologist but that graph on the right looks like a test to me.
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Will Schryver @imetatronink
If this was what it increasingly appears to have been, then I submit it was less a "test" than a demonstration of long-established capability.
And given the already demonstrated Iranian missile capability, I submit it is likely they have achieved both miniaturization and MIRVs.
9:32 PM · Oct 6, 2024
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Will Schryver @imetatronink
 Many people have been summarily dismissing the possibility of an Iranian nuclear "test" by referencing the United States Geological Survey's report that it occurred at a depth of 10km.
The USGS itself explains the mystery:
https://usgs.gov/faqs/why-do-so-many-earthquakes-occur-a-depth-10km…
10:11 PM · Oct 6, 2024
Inshallah it was a nuke. Israel is the world’s most disgusting rogue state.
The link did not seem to work re: depth earthquake
A useful rule of thumb is that a reliable depth requires that the distance from the epicenter to the nearest station must be less than the depth of the earthquake.
The most common reason for having to fix the depth is that the earthquake occurred too far from the nearest seismic station.
the rule of thumb does illustrate one conclusion: fixed depths are more common for shallow earthquakes than for deep ones.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-do-so-many-earthquakes-occur-a-depth-10km