There are some good collapse craters due to underground testing now visible about 1 km North of your placemark. Improved resolution now makes the area high resolution.

It is extremely probable, though at this time not positively verified, that North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, as they have been threatening to do. Attached is an overlay showing the location of a tremor of around magnitude 4.2 which probably was produced by a test.

There is already a thread started about the test site HERE. All of the placemarks in the thread fall within the area of the tremor.

HERE is the article from the New York Times which is the source of the overlay.

Here it is as located by the USGS. (41.294�N, 129.134�E)

I too was going to comment on the apparent missing or incorrect placement of chinese nuclear tests, at least as using some non-KML infromation on the web.
The wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lop_Nur
gives coordinates for some Chinese nuclear tests at Lop Nur down to the millionth of a degree --> 41.722602� N 88.736184� E.

A look at that location in google earth shows a black scar on the brown rock very similar to the melt zones in the Nevada Test Range nuclear test craters. There are ruined buildings in the area too. Also, there are a number of rounded structures about 50-80 M which may be subsidence craters from later underground tests. Other features in the area are appear to be bore holes and waste from bore holes.

Here is the exactly ubication (in 3D) of the explosion of "Ivan", the Tsar Bomb; that is the most powerful explotion made by mankind in the history. It have a link to some videos of that explotion.

Look at the destruction of terrain!!

Here the exact visible location of Soviet "Taiga" experiment - excavational blast of the 3x15 kT charges. It was a part of the uncompleated "Siberian rivers turning" project.


http://www.kp.ru/daily/23793/58757/

Exact location of the excavation nuclear blast "Kristall".

You're "Apple 2 and Charlie" test spots are incorrectly placed. I grew up in Pahrump which is the town nine miles to the northeast and there was never a test in these spots which is actually in California. You've missed the spot by 65 miles south of where they actually occured. Look around Mercury, Nevada.

Yes, the database used for the original post does have errors.

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The attachment includes accurate to questionable locations of all 2000+.

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I appreciate information which makes the placemarks more accurate and I will edit that information into the post as I receive it. Thanks.

Amazing, shocking and educational...

I wonder if there is still radiation in that places. I would (think I'm a pervert) be happy to go and see the craters...

Seems like Little Boy and Fatman were tests?

Yes, there is some residual radiation at that places. Dangerous but usually not deadly. So it is possible to walk there but not for long time. And of cource, with Geiger counter.

http://www.poligon.kz/radiology.shtml