Thanks Jeremiah!
This quake is important,
because it very well may be (and probably is) the Yakuza zeroing in on
being able to "shoot" and evoke the Yellowstone caldera.
We added the statement by
SecDef Cohen, so the readership would know this is not just malarky,
but that such use of special "electromagnetic weapons" has in fact
been confirmed officially by the Secretary of Defense at that time.
It's just one more
disturbing wrinkle on the "assured destruction" portion of the old MAD
(mutual assured destruction) concept. Most the U.S. citizens are quite
unaware of the extent to which such "eerie" weapons have been
developed and tested in and over the targeted United States over the
years.
Best wishes,
Tom Bearden
See response from USGS below - Webmaster
TO TOM BEARDEN:
Your report on the disappearance of the quake data on the USGS site
got my fury aroused. The European site has removed it too.
However, I went to the University of Memphis Earthquake Research
Site, and found the report. They have not removed it as of about 30
minutes ago, Jan 10, 2004, 10:59 Central.
Jeremiah
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usdiag.htm
Tom,
Your website, and the page at
http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/020804.htm , were brought
to my attention by a fan of yours.
Unfortunately Mitch Battros cannot read a map, and you have
uncritically passed along his erroneous information without doing
any fact checking. The coordinatesof the event listed on his, and
your website, 43.5N 105.1W, are nowhere near Yellowstone. This
location is in eastern Wyoming, approximately 270 miles from
Yellowstone.
For what it is worth, the NEIC does not, and never has suppressed
earthquake information. There are, however, cases where earthquake
listings have been removed. The reason for this is that, while
fairly reliable, and getting better all the time, the system that
locates and computes the magnitudes of earthquakes automatically
sometimes gives bad results, especially for events that are not well
recorded. Upon analyst review, these erroneous entries are deleted.
An excellent example of this the event referenced by you that turned
out to be a mine blast near Gillette, WY on February 6, 2004. The
automatic system, based upon what, for us, is a minimal amount of
data, computed an epicenter in eastern Wyoming. The EMSC solution
listed below is actually the NEIC automatic solution that the EMSC
reproduced on their website (note the "NEIA" source). Because of the
sparseness of the data, however, the depth was computed to be 264
km. This was a "red flag" that the location was not well constrained
by the data. In addition, the amplitudes from some stations that are
known to be not very well calibrated yielded an automatic magnitude
of 5.3. Upon review by an analyst, this event turned out to be a
mine blast at one of the mines near Gillette, WY. Since we try to
keep explosions and earthquakes separate, this event does not appear
in our earthquake listings. It does, however, appear in our Routine
Mining Seismicity Bulletin at
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/explosion/explosions.lis . A person
unfamiliar with our procedures, who had seen the automatic location
and magnitude, might erroneously presume that this event had been
"covered up". It is precisely because of these inaccurate automatic
solutions that we prefer to widely distribute only the reviewed
solutions.
Stuart Sipkin
USGS/NEIC
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