Irregularities in the Official Reporting of Earthquakes

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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