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USGS Reports 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake In Russia Near Ukraine Border, Then Retracts It Blaming "Mislocation"
Something surprising happened about an hour ago: at 2:15 pm, the USGS reported that a major 6.8 Magnitude earthquake had taken place in Russian territory, 16 kilometers WNW of Klintsy, in a location that is close to the Russian border with both Belarus and Ukraine.
Reuters was quick to report the earthquake:
- MAGNITUDE 6.8 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES WESTERN RUSSIA, NEAR BELARUS BORDER-USGS
This is where the USGS noted the major earthquake took place:
And the notification of the quake in question:
What is curious is that some 20 minutes later, the USGS decided that no quake had actually taken place. In fact not only was the earthquake promptly scrubbed from the USGS website...
... but the link we had sent out as notification of the earthquake:
6.8M Earthquake strikes 16km WNW of Klintsy, Russia http://t.co/XgFyB2Vh3F
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 13, 2015
is now a dead end (link here).
What happened? Was this merely the latest fat finger "glitch", one that may or may not have shaken the ground, or was it simply seasonally-adjusted away, like all those Texas job losses? Here is the official explanation:
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Friday there was no earthquake in western Russia after earlier reporting on its website a magnitude 6.8 near the border with Belarus.
USGS Geophysicist Paul Caruso said the agency's sensors mislocated an earthquake that was taking place elsewhere. The Russia earthquake appeared on the USGS website while a series of strong temblors were taking place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Greenland
So just like a NBC news anchor can "misremember" critical events over a period of many years, so the USGS can now "mislocate" an entire earthquake?
And while the quake or whetver the "mislocated" event may or may not have taken place, we now eagerly await for the BLS and BEA to "misfabricate" US economic data next as the deluge of bad economic news in the coming months courtesy of the shale bust finally reveals the real state of the US economy, forcing the various US economic departments to misadjust the latest recovery euphoria, and miscrush any hopes of a summer rate hike by the Fed.
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just a llleeeeetle further south and slight west adjustment and Bullseye. Damn spotters.
Would a nuclear weapon cause a temblor?
HAARP muthafrackin HAARP
prolly nuttin...just a big vodka fart
tune in to NBC for Brian Williams first hand account of the earth quake.
To Kiev!
THIS IS A TEST
OF THE EMERGENCY CENSORSHIP SYSTEM
THIS IS ONLY A TEST
Has anyone spotted a mushroom cloud in the general area??
Famous last words: what was that flash?
International business times reported it with witness accounts of the roaring and shaking of pictures off walls - but replace the story entirely about an hour later with a no earthquake per USGS piece!
Another HAARP "misfire"....I hate when that happens....
Gotta stop using DARPA "re-loads"....
Either that, or the White House started to shake from the Russian version of HAARP, co-incidently, of course <g>
LINK?
Yes, but it's more of a toadstool.
Never mind, I thought it said genital area.
this is even worse than the USGS' recurring...'your town is going to burn down in just four days' report to the people of Pahoa Hawaii (Big Island).
Of course...three months later, the people of Pahoa realized the local USGS lava "experts" really have no clue how lava flow behaves.
Here's a blast from the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Bam_earthquake
Following the earthquake the U.S. offered direct humanitarian assistance to Iran and in return the state promised to comply with an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency which supports greater monitoring of its nuclear interests. In total a reported 44 countries sent in personnel to assist in relief operations and 60 countries offered assistance.
Prior to the 6th century, the Bam Citadel was constructed, being encircled by 3 concentric, rammed-earthen walls that withstood numerous attacks and never fell in battle. 1600 years later, not so good.
The USGS manipulates the crap out of quake data.
HAARP works
Would a nuclear weapon cause a temblor?
Yes. Seismic sensors are actually used to confirm nuclear test ban treaty compliance and to estimate yields for underground tests. For above ground tests they can use infrasound monitoring as well (and of course the Vela satellites that totally didn't see that illegal test off of south africa in the late '70s, nope, that was a glitch.)
+1 to the above^ seismic sensors are part of monitoring.
"(and of course the Vela satellites that totally didn't see that illegal test off of south africa in the late '70s, nope, that was a glitch.) "
+1
snork, giggle...
Damn, I thought I was the only person knew about that shit.
I bring stuff like that up and get told I'm a fuck-nut and looked at Real Crazylike
"I'm a fuck-nut and looked at Real Crazylike "
+6.8
snork, giggle...
The nuclear bomb disposal squad must have cut the red wire instead of the black
They could actually go ask people in that area if they felt a quake. There would also be you tube videos by now.
Guess it's easier to be lazy and have junk like this on the front page than actually *gasp* do some real work to confirm if it was a mistake or not!
DASFUTTUPYO
so the answer to the equation is how many tons of TNT does it take to produce a 6.8 earthquake?
or said another way:
what seismically-registering activity occurred in that part of the world that it is important that no-one know about?
In normal times, I would say this was a data fart from the computers of the USGS (entirely possible), but these are not normal times. Quite a coincidence...
Better question, if the quake was mislocated then where was the actual quake, also witnesses, damage, tsunami warning? Or are we seeing government resources, in this case USGS brought to bear and coordinating to quickly establish a credible case for a suitcase nuke attack by of course Russian Spetsnatz seen in the area...
A suitcase nuke wouldn't register remotely close to a 6.8. The largest US test was a 5 megaton bomb in Amchitka (the Cannikin test) and it was a 6.9, so it'd take a bomb of comparable magnitude (and a 5MT is freaking huge, most of the inventory in the world is ~ 250-500KT.)
I realize that, the general point was mislocated seismic activity in a strategic area especially for false flag activities. Thanks for the refinement. Well, perhaps the CIA is trucking in their version of Tsar Bomba.
And Castle Bravo, US test was 15 megatons..
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2014/02/27-castle-bravo-la...
Largest underground test, I should have clarified. It had the largest magnitude "quake" associated with it.
calm: there was an earthquake around that size in the mid-atlantic around that time. entirely possible that this was a triangulation error...not hard to make that sort of mistake.
update: was within 30 sec of same time. 7.1 several in that area (not uncommon).
Good catch, thanks.. I need to release some krypton from my tinfoil hat.. Seriously you cannot believe a damn thing out of this .gov..
although i agree with you in general (cannot believe a damn thing etc), it is likely this was innocuous. they do triangulation automatically, usually from seismographs that are quite distant. if the anglular separation is very low, it is easy to flip between two points very far apart on first cut. larger quakes are always reviewed by a human, and fine tuned as they throw data from more seismographs in.....exact locations and magnitudes often change a half dozen times in the first hour or so after reporting.
For all of you (us?) tin hat types, it would be pretty hard to cover up anything nasty like that which is being implied here....big booms with bright flashes tend to be seen by lots of people, erasing a seismograph report wouldn't suffice.
You two will be on the nuke experts leadership staff.
In the New Republic.
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap3d/
run in internet explorer not crome.
The explanation states that there was no quake, no location, no damage, no witnesses.
Nuclear attack? You must be a reporter for Before It IS News.
500 metric tons............
i am not sure.. but.. it Could have been a NUKE going off... (maybe it was ISIS)
not only is it mislocated; now it is left to us to prove that it ever really happened.
That would be misexisted.
....aaaaand, it's gone!
Who else recorded this non event, had to be others or is it a world conspiracy to hide something that went wallop in big way...
You are fucking kidding me "mislocate".
WTF kinda term is that?
"sir citibank man, please don't honor those charges on my card. I have seem to mislocated my card". I hope that works for ya.
I bought the shit, I signed for the shit but there was some mislocation issues.
It was just a seasonal adjustment
It was just a seasonal adjustment
A 6.8 megaton earthquake.
Was hoping the epicenter was in Kiev. 9.5
But I'd settle for DC.
Try putting in 16km wnw of klintsy in google maps and you get an airport.
Here come the conspiracy theorists...
Twas a nuke...
They sent Hillary over there. It was a SNUKE.
In that case it was a puke.
BREAKING: internet proof found war is a propaganda and debt driven racket
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9wO4G0CUAEaYYX.png:large
You need to have taken the red pill to see and understand those Facts.
they are testing russia reaction time in preparation for the real event
Yep, "earthquake", wink, wink
they didn't convert correctly beteen meters and feet. you know government workers. they'll let a whole satellite burn up in another planet's atmosphere rather than switch to metric.
Yeah, but sending a satellite to another planet isn't rocket scien.....
Oh shit! Never mind!
Foot-farthings to the half-stone are different on Mars, dammit!
Don't be silly,everyone knows DC still uses leagues and furlongs.
Close enuff for govt.work.
I'm sure it was just another chemical plant being struck by a tactical missile. Go back to your bread and circuses. /sarc
Oh oh, incoming in 10 min???
Coincidentally, the earthquake was actually located near the site where the US Navy disposed of Osama Bin Laden
Is he coming back from the dead? If it is him of course. We don't know for sure do we?
Third time lucky.
Must be "Spinning in his grave" mighty fast then . . :-)
What is curious is that some 20 minutes later, the USGS decided that no quake had actually taken place. In fact not only was the earthquake promptly scrubbed from the USGS website...
HAARP or no HAARP...
Tell that to the people of the Donbass that have 6.8s happening to them every day in the shape of ballistic missile?...
The next executive order will instruct the USGS to not post any earthquake w/o prior WH authorization.
maybe they were planning on "creating" an earthquake , but something went wrong? you know the news outlets always have the information before it happens (like building 7) I'm sure they have earthquake creating machines
I heard they are making great progress with tectonic weapons. Fukushima tidal wave was a little suspect. EQ damage was minimal.
I really love the depleted uranusism used in the bunker busters. Blow a big hole and fuck up everyone within reach as an added benefit.
It must of been those damn frackers
Sweden just announced nevegative rates also with a round of QE to go on top.
The biggest earthshake from Russia will be a golden one pretty soon
+1 however wishful thinking SD that thought might be.
That's not surprising. Surprising would be the markets red for a day.
S&P 2150 By Early March?
3000 by December..... BTFD
when I was a kid I fucked with a seismograph machine, not knowing what it was
for a very brief period some of the world's leading geologists thought they were recording an earthquake big enough to rip the planet in half
The US gov (DoS) just has a random news headlines generator which is spinning the wheels of different words. They just plug "Russia" "Ukraine" "rebels" "Putin" randomly in all and every disaster reporting news.
Only the smartest of us know that the Ukraine is a capital of Greenland.
cheers
You can't have these things happen while the markets are open.
Especially if there's fall out afterwards.
It was probably Porkyshenko farting and shitting his pants!
Wow: even the USGS is putting out disinformation these days!
ZH puts up a headline like this. That region doesn't have those kinds of earthquakes.
ZH, be very careful, you just might lose a reader or two.
I'm sure Yahoo is all over this....
No, yahoo is all over an Obama official admitting there are aliens and we can handle the truth.
Shit you not.
What do they taste like?
Alien. The other other white meat.
ZH was just reporting what USGS put out there. If nothing else, it's kind of an interesting mistake, isn't it?
Hiroshima was a 5.0-5.2 on the Richter scale.
Just the aftershocks of the Fed shitquaking the S&P.
My damn fault. Someone finally pulled my finger.
If civilizations can be said to go through initiatory events... it looks like ours will very, very soon.
You call this a civilization?
***BREAKING***Brian Williams reporting from the fault line at 5:30EST
Wrong: Brian Williams crawls out of huge crack in the earth to report..
Sort of validates my mantra, "I wouldn't believe them if they told me the sky is blue."
If they aren't lying, which is rare, they are fucking up the truth.
The banksters need to repay us.
Here in the Northeastern US we are being baked to death by rampant man made global warming. These snow piles burn when you fall into them.
This was an underground detonation of some sort is my guess.
Did the earthquake have a mushroom cloud?
Tyler, Tyler, Tyler......
That was the seismic effect of Barry O'Bummer's foreign policy crashin and burnin......
that's awkward.
USGS didn't get the location wrong, they were a bit early on the timing.
Can they "print" an earthquake ?
Maybe this.: Russia works on 100-ton monster ballistic missile
Or maybe this:
Russia "launched" its own SWIFT system.
http://sputniknews.com/business/20150213/1018240631.html
That would be earth-shaking. Or maybe just Obama stamping his feet and pouting around the White House.
Fuck this planet.
Too much shit going on anymore to make sense of anything.
It twas me with my 2 turning 2 smoking 2 choking2 on fire 2 unaccounted for b36 bomber with mk4 duct taped up. Navigation was broken too. Brian Williams was my tail gunner on the space shuttle. Said he liked it hot
Brian Williams is there now.
Hmmmm...
"Describing the impact of the quake, a resident in Klintsky commented: "A bang with a loud roar occurred. The roar got louder until things started to sway and rattle. Books fell off my shelf and all pictures in my house were askew."
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russia-6-9-magnitude-earthquake-hits-bryansk-14...
Nice find, what is up with USGS
The WH is suppressing the news, like everything else.
But there were a lot of big ones today....see here (along with the one that's "null"):
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com
Indeed!
If you check the timestamp, that quake hit the Atlantic Ocean. Your link is supported by both GeoScience Australia and the CSEM-EMSC Feed (and has the USGS feed as well).
There's another link here: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
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that probably wasn't supposed to be released until tomorrow. kind of like the wtc 7 falling down cleanly and completely into it's own footprint twenty minutes after it was reported to have already happened.
It's similar to "ETHNICITY REMOVED Lightening."
One (Man of Certain Ethnicity) says to another (man of the same ethnicity), "I'm sorry to have hear about your fire."
The first guy (of that ethnicity) responds, "Thank you, but it hasn't happened yet."
It was very common in the South Bronx in the late 1970s.
Fan mail from a flounder?
Actually, a 7.1 mag but not in Ukraine, but the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Canada and Ireland. 13.8 km depth.
Nuclear Fracking .... and the economy of scale !
"Tectonic shift caused by unequal expansion of the earth crust due to global warming !" Algore
Suspcious Observers reported on that plasma solar filament someone posted here yesterday ("Big Earthquake Filament" on youtube). There were earthquakes in Chile on the border of Argentina. Also there was seismic activity in Antartica and Actic as well as volcanoes in Guatamala, Costa Rica and Mexico.
In a related story, a week ago Tom Lupshu reported that a geologist at Yellowstone National Park said that there was subterranean brown activity there in an ABC interview. He said he didn't see any eruptions of the super volcano in the forseeable future. When pressed about what the "foreseeable future" was, he said 2 weeks.
It is Friday the 13th, after all.
Google link to USGS shows location at 52*48'N. 32.00*E. Looks like a farmer's field near Unecha.
Let me know when they fabricate a misQ99x2 please.
Lots of possibilities to keep us distracted! Yeee ha! Never let a good distraction go to waste.
Dr. Evil: "I have a plan."
Underling: "What is it Doctor?"
Dr. Evil: "I do not know. However, I do know that my plan depends on how the ants respond to earthquakes."
Underling: "How so, Doctor?"
Dr. Evil: "I do not know. However, I want you to announce to the ants that there was an earthquake somewhere. Let us see what happens."
Underling: "Where is the earthquake, Doctor? What shall I tell them?"
Dr. Evil: "I do not know....."
+1
Gave me a chuckle.
What is telling are the depths of both earthquakes reported (russia and Iran) 10 km shallow means man made in my experience. It is no longer justa war of sanctions and conventional war fare.....suspected nukes and man made earthquakes....the neo bolsheviks will not go quitely in the night....not surprised 911 was an all in gamble ...war is their only way out of what is unfolding....read veterantoday for fact based news.....
"not surprised 911 was an all in gamble"
Those who finally wrap their head around the meaning of those events see a very different world than those who accept the standard story. It really is the lynchpin event of this century, and maybe significantly longer than that.
The Mother of All Molotov Cocktails ? Siberian swamp gas ignited by errant meteor .... spruce trees felled outward for 100 kms ?
It happens
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/world/europe/ukraine-fighting-escalates-ahead-of-truce.html?_r=0
More absolute garbage from the NYT propaganda machine...
I love how our gubment never manages to offer any actual PROOF of Russian incursions. I have lost any and all faith in MSM and believing our "leaders". Everything they tell us is a fucking lie!
I DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY TELL US!!
All things considered .... it probably was the Vodka fart !
You can bet your last dollar MY MAIN MAN, knows what happened!
And when the time is right, we'll know.
one eye, an ear and nostril open all the time
heck, why else you come to this site??
Hmmm, are we witnessing the Tunguska blast 2.0?
Wiley Coyote rocket backpack failed ignition .... back up parachute malfunction ?
Well if you had NATO Black Ops going in your border area and you wanted to test some tactical nukes, test a missile with huge payload for future nuke operations, or test a big Clean Bomb... Well you look for places where special ops are going on. If you have a big facility that could be an asset to the enemy, bingo.
New Russian Ordnance, Missile, tactical Nuke, Clean Bomb?
EMSC report the same thing?
Of course the worrisome part..... Its based on historical data and not sensors..of which there are vey few inthe atlantic..
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WECA43 PHEB 131921
TIBCAX
TSUNAMI STATEMENT NUMBER 2
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
1921 UTC FRI FEB 13 2015
THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO COUNTRIES WITHIN AND BORDERING THE
CARIBBEAN SEA...EXCEPT FOR PUERTO RICO...THE U.S. VIRGIN
ISLANDS...AND THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.
... TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT ...
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.
THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 1900Z 13 FEB 2015
COORDINATES - 52.8 NORTH 32.0 WEST
LOCATION - REYKJANES RIDGE
MAGNITUDE - 6.8
EVALUATION
A DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT DOES NOT EXIST BASED ON
HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.
HOWEVER - THERE IS THE SMALL POSSIBILITY OF A LOCAL TSUNAMI THAT
COULD AFFECT COASTS LOCATED USUALLY NO MORE THAN A HUNDRED
KILOMETERS FROM THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES IN THE
REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF THIS
POSSIBILITY.
THIS WILL BE THE FINAL PRODUCT ISSUED BY THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI
WARNING CENTER FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
BECOMES AVAILABLE.
WTF
http://investmentwatchblog.com/six-people-died-in-a-fiery-ny-train-crash...
Hahahahaha oops
sux when your every move is watched ...
So what's that, a .25 megaton nuke?
So, we nuked some folks. . .
Then we misremembered it and reporters conflated it with some other events that never happened.
Actually, this is kind of scary. I have only experienced one earthquake in my life, having grown up in the east (US). It happened at 5:04am when I was awake but not out of bed. I knew what it was immediately, got out of bed, went to a computer and logged on to the USGS website where the earthquake (only about 3.2 Richter, 10secs) had already appeared - within two minutes.
I was sure then this process is computerized - it just got on there too quickly to be otherwise. So I am left wondering what happened near the Ukraine/Russia border.
its Dick Cheney with his SR71 based "ground earth movement machine" same gun he used to take out Banda Aceh.
"Another" tactical nuke.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2945650/Giant-explosion-sparked-...
Aurora model B
Actually the quake was in Taiwan. I know because I felt it.
It is just coordination problems folks,
It happens often. You know, like the time BBC reporter talked about WTC building collapsing even before it occurred.
Probably some misfunction at the event. It did not go as planned.
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at best , someone is trying to pretend a nuclear weapon is capable of making a 6.8 on the richter scale. take a basic class in geology and then read a few papers about how many billions of dollars were flushed into the geology field in order to enhance study of underground nuclear tests. through the last 40 or so years since atmsopheric testing was banned, underground testing is searched for with special geological instruments. furthermore nukes give off a different orientation of seizmic wave because their energy is released in an explosive manner into surrounding rock rather than in the tearing , ripping, or perpendicular motions of faultlines of rock against one another. they are totally distinct. no room for confusion or propoganda unless you think you can get EVERYONE to fake the data. and above ground nuclear weapons do not create seismological events. even weapons detonated on top of the surface of the earth would barely register as most of the energy of a nuke goes to the place of least resistance (the air). a nuke must be buried , like the explanation in the movie armaggedon, to effectively transfer its energy into surrounding rock.
at worst this is a stupid article on a slow newsday on zh. either detailing a mistake or some nonense.
everyone missed the possibly biggest purpose of this - it is a psyop a message to Russia to back off or you will have 'earthquakes' in places.