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Irregularities in the Official Reporting of Earthquakes


First we receive the following...

Subject: Earthquake Reports - Continuing irregularities
From: NEIC-USGS Subscription Service
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:05:27 +0200

 == PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==

***This event supersedes event AT00683827.


Region:                            HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
Geographic coordinates:            36.466N,  70.716E
Magnitude:                        6.0 Mw
Depth:                            202 km
Universal Time (UTC):             29 Oct 2009  17:44:31
Time near the Epicenter:          29 Oct 2009  22:14:31
Local standard time in your area: 29 Oct 2009  17:44:31

Location with respect to nearby cities:
  72 km (45 miles) S (169 degrees) of Feyzabad, Afghanistan
 131 km (81 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Chitral, Pakistan
 139 km (86 miles) SSW (212 degrees) of Khorugh, Tajikistan
 239 km (149 miles) NW (322 degrees) of Mingaora, Pakistan
 257 km (160 miles) NNE (32 degrees) of KABUL, Afghanistan


ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
________________________________
event ID                     :  US 2009niba

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist at NEIC
For subsequent updates, maps, and technical information, see: 
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2009/us2009niba/



National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
http://neic.usgs.gov/


And then... twenty eight minutes later we received its "Cancellation"...

DELETED: Event US 2009niba

                     == EVENT DELETED NOTIFICATION ==

***This event has been deleted after review by a seismologist.***

Geographic coordinates:        36.466N,  70.716E
Magnitude:                    6.0
Universal Time (UTC):         29 Oct 2009  17:44:31
Time near the Epicenter:      29 Oct 2009  22:14:31

Location with respect to nearby cities:
  72 km (45 miles) S (169 degrees) of Feyzabad, Afghanistan
 131 km (81 miles) WNW (301 degrees) of Chitral, Pakistan
 139 km (86 miles) SSW (212 degrees) of Khorugh, Tajikistan
 239 km (149 miles) NW (322 degrees) of Mingaora, Pakistan
 257 km (160 miles) NNE (32 degrees) of KABUL, Afghanistan


DISCLAIMER: https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/help.html?page=help#disclaimer


This is an update to a previous notification for this event


The M+G+R Foundation Comments:

As it can be seen above, an event which was already confirmed - attested by the initial qualifier "This event supersedes event AT00683827" - is now deleted. How can an earthquake of 6.0 in the Richter scale can be confused with anything else?

This is just one example. There are many similar cancellations, including one which was reported by the regular media (accompanied with footage of the damages caused) only to be "deleted" by the authorities. Something is really amiss and we do not think is the detecting instrumentation.


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