[sure_fine]

so, they are testing?

[pennboricua]

my thoughts exactly.

[Strategerist]

Well, yeah, if they're testing:

1) Among the largest multimegaton thermonuclear hydrogen bombs ever built, as their FIRST test

2) In a hole three times deeper than the deepest hole ever drilled by man in the history of the world

Then yeah, it's nuclear testing.

Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world to begin with. Quakes large enough to make the news are actually too big to be nuclear tests.

A nuke test would have a magnitude in the 4 to 4.5 range or so and have a very unique signature. And they don't have aftershocks. And they aren't 40 km deep.

[RightWhale]

they are testing?

Not there. They have plenty of uninhabited desert for that.