Removing The Shackles Blog: Why is the USGS editing earthquake data? Updated August 18th

Earthquakes: Europe & Middle east UPDATE

This is an update to my previous report "August 14 Earthquakes"


Well my friends, the deeper I dig, the harder I scratch my head and the angrier and more frustrated I get.  I woke up ridiculously early this morning and decided to take a look at the USGS and EMSC earthquake updates for today... then did a comparison for the past week between the two sites using the same criteria.

...Something is definitely going on here. I set the search criteria for the past 7 days, for the same area, showing all earthquakes above 2.0 magnitude, any depth.

 First, here is a screen shot of the USGS map from 7am this morning:

USGS Aug 18 7am

The USGS shows 34 earthquakes in the past 7 days for this area- which includes southern Europe and middle east.

Second: Here is a screen shot of the EMSC map, using the exact same search criteria:

EMSC aug 18 7am

The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) is reporting, using the EXACT same search criteria,  432 earthquakes in this area in the past 7 days.  Even more interestingly, of those 432 earthquakes, only 54 of those earth quakes measured a depth of 11km or deeper and 179 measured 5km deep OR LESS.

All the Iranian earthquakes measure 10km or less- and most were a depth of EXACTLY 10km.

According to the EMSC there have been 35 earthquakes in the past 7 days that have been magnitude 5.0 or higher.  There have been 550 earthquakes globally of a magnitude 2.5 or greater.

According to the USGS there have been 25 earthquakes in the past 7 days that have been magnitude 5.0 or higher. There have been 201 earth quakes globally of a magnitude 2.5 or greater.


Check the information out for yourself:

USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

EMSC: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/


Please share this information out and please leave your comments if you have any theories.
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 EDITED Aug 15 2012

I am seriously scratching my head.  I just checked the USGS and the EMSC and AGAIN the USGS is not showing the earthquakes in Greece.

According to the EMSC Greece had another 10 earthquakes today, between 2.2- 3.3, so not very strong, BUT.... all in a depth of 2-5km deep.

Again the question is: WHY?  What is going on in Greece?

Anyone have any theories?

USGS August 15 2012

EMSC August 15th 2012

What's going on?  It would seem that the USGS is are again editing earthquakes as they happen.

This is the USGS live feed screen shot from 30 minutes ago:

this is the EMSC live feed screen shot from 35 minutes ago

The EMSC live feed is showing several earthquakes from 12:05- 13:06 that don't show in the USGS feed.

WOW!!!  Update!  in the time it's taken me to post up these screen shots here, there has been an earthquake in Iran again!

EMSC live feed from 10:41 est

USGS live feed screen shot 10:42 est

The USGS "life" feed is not showing the Iran earthquake, nor some of the earthquakes in Europe - most notably the one in Greece is completely missing from the USGS feed.

Dutchsinse has been telling us for a long time the the USGS has been editing earthquakes right out of existence.

The Question is: WHY?


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