简介：OnMarch26,2010anunderwaterexplosion(UWE)ledtothesinkingoftheROKSCheonan.TheofficialMultinationalCivilian-MilitaryJointInvestigationGroup(MCMJIG)reportconcludedthatthecauseoftheunderwaterexplosionwasa250kgnetexplosiveweight(NEW)detonationatadepthof69mfromaDPRK'CHT-02D'torpedo.KimandGitterman(2012a)determinedtheNEWandseismicmagnitudeas136kgatadepthofapproximately8mand2.04,respectivelyusingbasichydrodynamicsbasedontheoreticalandexperimentalmethodsaswellasspectralanalysisandseismicmethods.ThepurposeofthisstudywastoclarifythecauseoftheUWEviamoredetailedmethodsusingbubbledynamicsandsimulationofpropellersaswellasforensicseismology.Regardingtheobservedbubblepulseperiodof0.990s,0.976sand1.030swerefoundincaseofa136NEWatadetonationdepthof8musingtheboundaryelementmethod(BEM)and3Dbubbleshapesimulationsderivedfora136kgNEWdetonationatadepthof8mapproximately5mportsidefromthehullcenterline.Hereweshowthroughanalyticalequations,modelsand3Dbubbleshapesimulationsthatthemostprobablecauseofthisunderwaterexplosionwasa136kgNEWdetonationatadepthof8mattributabletoaROKlittoral'landcontrol'mine(LCM).