6.6 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES JAPAN AND HOW USGS CHANGES MAGNITUDE LEVELS

TO ILLUSTRATE MY POINT HERE TODAY, THE ABOVE MAP WAS PROVIDED BY THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY (JMA). IT IS SUPPOSED TO SHOW THE MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES FOR JAPAN.
PLEASE NOTICE THAT IT SHOWS NO RECENT EARTHQUAKES IN THE NORTH OF JAPAN NEAR THE FALLING-DOWN FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.

IF YOU WILL, GO TO ANOTHER WEBSITE THAT REPORTS ON RECENT EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN AND NOTICE HOW MANY QUAKES ACTUALLY WERE RECORDED IN THE NORTH WITHIN THE PAST 2 DAYS.
  http://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/recent

FROM JAPAN TIMES, OCT.21, 2016

AT LEAST 14 PEOPLE INJURED.

"A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 shook parts of western Honshu early Friday afternoon, damaging homes and roads and cutting power to almost 77,000 households.

The Meteorological Agency said the earthquake occurred at 2:07 p.m. in central Tottori Prefecture, about 700 km west of Tokyo, at a depth of 10 km. It was followed by a weaker aftershock about 30 minutes later.

NO TSUNAMI DANGER   
The agency said there was no danger of a tsunami from the inland temblor.

Okayama City Fire Department said a woman in her 70s was taken to hospital after she fell and broke her right leg. Five people are reported to have been injured in Tottori Prefecture, while others sustained injuries in Okayama, Hyogo and neighboring prefectures, according to police and other sources.

Two houses collapsed in the town of Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, according to the local fire department. Roads were cracked and roof tiles laid strewn in the town. A number of dwellings in other parts of the prefecture suffered damage.

About 2,700 residents evacuated from their homes, according to local officials.

In Kurayoshi in the prefecture, ATMs at some local banks temporarily went offline due to a power outage.

RAILWAY SUSPENDED, AIRPORT CLOSED...

West Japan Railway Co. temporarily suspended all services on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations.

Okayama airport closed its runway to check for safety.

SHIMANE NUCLEAR PLANT APPEARS TO BE UNDAMAGED. 
FEW REALIZE HOW DANGEROUS IT IS FOR ANY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT TO LOSE POWER.
ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT FUKUSHIMA TO SEE WHAT THAT CAN LEAD TO.

No abnormalities were detected at the Shimane nuclear plant, which is currently off-line, in nearby Shimane Prefecture, according to the utility.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN U.S.G.S. REPORTING AND THE REPORT FROM THE ACTUAL AREA HIT...

Japan's Earthquake Early Warning System initially put the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.7, but the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) revised the magnitude down to 6.6.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), meanwhile, put the magnitude significantly lower, at 6.2.

WHY DOES USGS OFTEN LOWER THE NUMBERS?
THERE HAVE BEEN COMPLAINTS FOR QUITE AWHILE ABOUT THIS, BUT TO NO AVAIL.

SEE THE PDF Discrepancies between pidc, isc, and usgs seismic magnitude

THE DISCREPANCY HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED DUE TO COMPLAINTS FROM AMERICANS AND OTHER NATIONS, AND IT WAS FOUND THAT USGS AVERAGES ABOUT A 0.4 LOWER LISTING FOR MANY EARTHQUAKES THAN DO OTHER REPORTING AGENCIES, BUT NO ONE COULD PINPOINT THE ROOT OF THIS DISCREPANCY AND IT HAS CONTINUED SINCE ABOUT 1996.

( REPORT BY J. Murphy, J. Dewey and R. Willmann)

AFTER TODAY'S DOWNGRADE BY USGS, THE TEA ROOM WAS REMINDED OF THIS HAPPENING TIME AFTER TIME BOTH HERE AND ABROAD.

BACK ON OCTOBER 20, 2011, A LOT OF ANGRY CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS AND SOME SCIENTISTS COMPLAINED AT HOW USGS HANDLED THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE TWO SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKES.
USGS DOWNGRADED THE SECOND QUAKE DESPITE EVIDENCE THAT THEY WERE BOTH IN THE 4.0 AND ABOVE RANGE.

AFTER I HAD READ INITIAL REPORTS AND SEEN THE INITIAL MAGNITUDES POSTED AND THEN SEEN THEM CHANGED, A DISCUSSION AMONG RESIDENTS IN COMMENTS AND BY THE WEBSITE AUTHOR, ALSO A BAY AREA RESIDENT, INTRIGUED ME...

AS ANYONE CAN SEE FROM THE ACTUAL SEISMOGRAPH OF THE TWO QUAKES, THE SECOND QUAKE WAS INDEED STRONGER, BUT USGS RULED OTHERWISE.
WHY?

"To put the USGS initial reporting ‘error’ into perspective, in the particular case of Quake-2, they initially rated it magnitude 4.2, then downgraded to 3.8, which is a difference in strength of 2.5 times! In other words, their error was 250%. (Note, it’s a logarithmic scale, e.g. a magnitude 5 is 10x stronger than a magnitude 4)."

7 DAYS LATER, SAME THING AS ANOTHER QUAKE STRUCK THE SAME AREA AND AGAIN, USGS INITIALLY RANKED IT A 4.2, THEN, JUST AS BEFORE, DOWNGRADED IT TO A 3.8!

ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 26, 2016, TRUCKEE, OHIO HAD A RARE QUAKE WHICH USGS RATED AS A 5.2 INITIALLY, BUT THEN...YES, THEY DOWNGRADED THAT TO A 4.7.
THERE IS SIMPLY NO VALID EXPLANATION FOR THIS TENDENCY BY USGS.

THE CASE OF THE FOUR DISAPPEARING CANADIAN EARTHQUAKES, APRIL 14, 2012

DO CAPTURED SCREENSHOTS LIE, OR DOES THE USGS?
TWO OF THESE QUAKES WERE MAGNITUDE >6.0, WHILE THE OTHER TWO WERE MAGNITUDE >5.0.

HOW DID THEY JUST DISAPPEAR?

WHILE THAT WEBSITE'S VIEW IN NO WAY MATCHES MY OWN, FACTS ARE FACTS, NO MATTER WHERE WE FIND THE DOCUMENTATION OF THEM.

THE INFORMATION ON THOSE 4 QUAKES WAS DULY POSTED, THEN REMOVED, WITH NO EXPLANATION.
THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND MAY, IN FACT, BE QUITE UNETHICAL.

THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA'S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TEAM CAME UNDER FIRE AND WAS BEING PUSHED BY BIG OIL COMPANIES TO DOWNPLAY FRACKING AS BEING THE CAUSE OF A >5.0 AND MANY >4.0 EARTHQUAKES THERE, AS AN NBC AFFILIATE STATION REPORTED.

"According to an e-mail from 2013, OGS Seismologist Austin Holland was asked to meet with OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY President David Boren and Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm.

A Tulsa World article on the issue refers to OGS e-mails obtained through an open records request by the website Energywire.

After another meeting, Holland wrote "the basic gist of the meeting is that Continental does not feel induced seismicity is an issue, and they are nervous about any dialog on the subject."

"It's always remarkable to see it in black and white," Soraghan said of the e-mails.

IT'S ALSO DISHEARTENING.

In past interviews, Holland has complained of the oil industry’s attempts to “influence his work,” and in a new Bloomberg story he describes the meeting with Boren and Hamm as “just a little bit intimidating.”

From Bloomberg’s Benjamin Elgin and Matthew Phillips:

During the meeting, Hamm requested that Holland be careful when publicly discussing the possible connection between oil and gas operations and a big jump in the number of earthquakes, which geological researchers were increasingly tying to the underground disposal of oil and gas wastewater, a byproduct of the fracking boom that Continental has helped pioneer. “It was an expression of concern,” Holland recalls.

Continental Resources disagrees with that description:"

THE PLOT THICKENS!
CONTINENTAL RESOURCES OIL CEO WAS ASKED FOR $25 MILLION DONATION BY THE OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT?
SURELY NOT!

"In a Tulsa World story by Randy Krehbiel, OU President David Boren called a recent piece by EnergyWire’s Mike Sorgahan “a bald-faced lie and some of the most inaccurate reporting I’ve ever seen in my life.”

EnergyWire and Sorgahan, stand by the June 23 story, which reports that scientists at the Oklahoma Geological Survey, which operates out of OU, “came up with a position that squared with Hamm’s, saying most of the hundreds of earthquakes rattling the state are natural and not caused by the oil industry” — a position the agency later reversed.

The EnergyWire story was sourced with records and emails obtained through the Oklahoma Open Records Act. Sorgahan tells the World:

“We sought and received comment from the university spokeswoman before the story ran,” Soraghan wrote. “All of her responses were included in the story. We have not been contacted by the university or the Oklahoma Geological Survey since the story published.”

At least some of the emails referenced in the EnergyWire story were independently verified by the World. Those emails show that OU fundraising officials had developed a proposal, and that Boren and another university official had scheduled a meeting with Continental Resources Chairman and CEO Harold Hamm:

In previous articles, EnergyWire has reported on the close relationship between the university and the oil industry, including a 2013 meeting with Boren, Hamm and state seismologist Austin Holland of the Oklahoma Geological Survey. Holland has acknowledged feeling “pressure” from the industry — and university emails show Hamm wanted scientists fired who were linking the oil and gas industry to earthquakes, Bloomberg reported in May.

Hamm denies he tried to “bully” scientists, and Boren and Holland say interactions and conversations with representatives of the oil industry haven’t changed scientific research."

WHAT?
GASP!
BIG OIL CALLS SHOTS OR UNIVERSITIES FUNDED BY BIG OIL DO?
SAY IT AIN'T SO!

LISTEN, AMERICANS, SUCH THINGS AS THIS HAPPEN FAR MORE FREQUENTLY THAN MOST ARE AWARE OF.

IN THE CASE OF JAPAN, UNDER-REPORTING AND MAGNITUDE-CHANGING OF EARTHQUAKES SERVES THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY THE MOST AS JAPAN IS SCRAMBLING TO BRING BACK ALL ITS NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS, BUT THEY KEEP FAILING THE TESTS THAT WOULD ALLOW IT.

IF EITHER JAPANESE CITIZENS OR CITIZENS OF OTHER NATIONS SAW HOW MANY AND HOW FREQUENT AND HOW BIG JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKES ARE, PERHAPS PEOPLE WOULD BE AFRAID TO ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE, KNOWING HOW EASILY THEY COULD BECOME WORSE THAN THE HIROSHIMA BOMB AFTER A DEVASTATING QUAKE.

SAME GOES FOR HERE IN AMERICA, BUT HERE, WE'RE OBLIGED TO BIG OIL AND BIG GAS COMPANIES MORE THAN TO NUCLEAR ENERGY AS WE HAVE A NATIONAL OIL/GAS GLUT GOING ON.
WE USE THOSE RESOURCES MORE THAN SEVERAL OTHER BIG NATIONS COMBINED.

IT DOES NOT BEHOOVE THOSE WHO REPORT THE REAL NEWS TO DO SO IF BIG OIL AND BIG GAS OBJECTS.
AFTER ALL, THE SAME WEALTH THAT CONTROLS THOSE MEGA-COMPANIES ALSO CONTROLS OUR MAJOR NEWS MEDIA.

WHEN I LEARNED AS A CHILD OF 13 YEARS OLD HOW THE BIG NAMES OF WALL STREET ABSOLUTELY CALL THE SHOTS IN OUR GOVERNMENT, OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, INFLUENCES HOW WE THINK AND HOW WE VOTE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, I FELT SICK.
I WEPT, I DIDN'T WANT TO BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING AND HEARING.
I HID MY EYES FROM THE REALITY OF IT FOR ALMOST A YEAR, IN DEEP DENIAL

AND THEN, LIKE ANY GOOD STOIC, I ACCEPTED WHAT WAS FACT AND SET OUT TO FIND OUT HOW IT HAD HAPPENED AND WHY.

I STILL LOVE MY COUNTRY PASSIONATELY...MY NATION...NOT ITS LEADERS, BUT ITS "COMMON PEOPLE", THE AVERAGE JOE AND JANE, THE OLD "AMERICAN DREAM", AND THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE WE ALLOWED IT TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THOSE WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT US, WHO CARE ONLY ABOUT PROFITS AND POWER AND BEING THE "KING OF THE HILL".

THEY BUY POLITICIANS, JOURNALISTS, EDUCATORS, SCIENTISTS AND OUR VOTES, ANY WAY THEY CAN.

THEY APPEAR TO HAVE NEITHER ETHICS NOR CONSCIENCE.

WHEN THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED AS A REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY, OLD BEN FRANKLIN SAID WE'D HAVE THAT REPUBLIC "IF YOU CAN KEEP IT".

WE WERE TO BE THE "WATCHMEN ON THE WALL" WHO NEVER TOOK OUR EYES OFF THOSE WE CHOSE TO PUT IN POWER IN HIGH PLACES, BUT WE BECAME APATHETIC, COMPLACENT, AND, PERHAPS A DECADE BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY, THE PLAN TO CONTROL US BY "ETERNAL DEBT" WAS IMPLEMENTED AND A WAY WAS FOUND TO MAKE US A "DEBTOR NATION, AN INDEBTED PEOPLE".

SINCE 1917 WE'VE BEEN IN A DEATH SPIRAL AND ONLY WE, THE PEOPLE, CAN RECOGNIZE WHO IS BEHIND IT AND STOP THEM FROM KILLING AMERICA.

YES, I HAVE WRITTEN THE EULOGY FOR AMERICA ON THIS BLOG, BUT I HAVE NEVER GIVEN UP HOPE, FOR TO DO SO IS TO DIE INSIDE AND TO ACCEPT DEATH WITHOUT.
I CAN WRITE ABOUT HER DEATH, MY AMERICA, BUT I DAMNED SURE CAN'T SHOVEL DIRT IN HER FACE AND FILL THAT GRAVE.

WHEN WE BUT LOOK, SEEK, DETERMINE TO FIND OUT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON AND WHO'S BEHIND IT, A WHOLE NEW WORLD OPENS UP BEFORE US AND MAYBE WE SEE WHY AND MAYBE EVEN HOW WE HAVE TO SAVE WHAT'S LEFT.

YOU SEE, IT'S REALLY NOT JUST THAT THE USGS HAS CHANGED MAGNITUDES OF EARTHQUAKES, IT'S THAT EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY IS SUCKED-ON TO THE PAPS OF "THE GREAT FEEDERS"...THOSE WHOM MANY WORSHIP AS "JOB-GIVERS", AS THE "INDUSTRIAL BACKBONE OF AMERICA". 

THAT GREAT WEALTH CONTROLS MANY THINGS, OUR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND THOSE WE HAVE FOOLISHLY COUNTED ON TO PROTECT AND SERVE US.

NASA WAS BUSTED 'BIG-TIME' FOR COVERING UP SIGNS OF PRECURSOR TO QUAKES OUT ON THE WEST COAST BACK IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR.

"Within a three hour time frame, so much Carbon Monoxide spewed into the atmosphere, that typical ground levels of 150 parts-per-billion-by-volume (ppbv) skyrocketed to more than forty thousand (40,000) ppbv! covering almost the entire state of California. "

THAT REPORT MAKES FOR DISMAL READING, BUT IS NECESSARY, AS ALL SUCH IS, SO THAT WE SEE AND REALIZE HOW VERY LITTLE WE CAN COUNT ON SUCH AGENCIES TO LOOK OUT FOR THE GOOD OF AVERAGE CITIZENS.
NASA's OWN SATELLITE IMAGES CONFIRM THAT THEY WERE GUILTY.

WE'VE SEEN RADIATION LEVELS MISREPORTED OR NOT REPORTED AT ALL, TOXINS IN OUR WATER UNDER-REPORTED, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS DENIED, THE POISONING OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY IGNORED, PLAYED DOWN, THE CREATION OF DRUGS TO MAKE US MINDLESS ZOMBIES, ALL WITHOUT LONG-TERM STUDIES, ACCEPTED, THE JUGGLING OF FIGURES AND OUTRIGHT REFUSAL OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO ALLOW CONGRESS TO AUDIT IT, ITS REFUSAL TO ALLOW FOREIGN NATIONS TO RECLAIM THEIR OWN GOLD SUPPLIES FROM THE U.S., THE MANIPULATIONS OF THE STOCK MARKET, THE CURRENT BRIBERY OF THE OPEC NATIONS TO STOP PUMPING OIL SO THAT WALL STREET CAN ENJOY THE PROFITS OF $5.00 PER GALLON GASOLINE AGAIN, THE HIGH PRICE OF HEATING FUEL AS WE GO INTO WINTER, THE HIGHER PRICES FOR GOODS AS THEY CAN CLAIM IT COSTS MORE TO TRANSPORT THOSE TO US.

LOOK BACK...
FOR OVER FOUR YEARS I'VE BEEN PASSING ON WHAT I'VE LEARNED THESE PAST 57 YEARS SINCE I WAS THAT AWAKENING CHILD OF 13.

I DON'T WRITE THIS BLOG LIGHTLY.
I HAVE NIGHTMARES THAT I'LL REPORT SOMETHING THAT ISN'T CORRECT,
I TRIPLE-CHECK EVERYTHING AND HAVE STILL MADE A FEW ERRORS HERE, AS YOU HAVE READ MY ADMISSIONS TO THOSE ONCE I DISCOVERED THEM.

NOT KNOWING IF I GET MANY MORE TOMORROWS, I MUST BE VERY CAREFUL TO NOT MISLEAD, TO NEVER LIE, TO ALWAYS DO AND SAY AND BE WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE I WAS TAUGHT AND I AGREE THAT THE PEOPLE MUST COME FIRST, NOT ME.
THE TRUTH MUST BE SHOWN, NO MATTER WHOM IT HURTS OR ANGERS.
HONOR, WE MUST BE HONORABLE...AND ACCOUNTABLE TO HONOR.

SO I ASK YOU TO PLEASE, ALWAYS GO FIND THINGS OUT FOR YOURSELVES, BUT NEVER BLIND YOURSELVES TO TRUTH, EVEN WHEN IT BREAKS YOUR HEART OR CURDLES YOUR BLOOD OR MAKES YOU SICK.

QUESTION EVERYTHING, AND SEEK THE GREATEST KNOWLEDGE, THE DEEPEST TRUTHS.

WE LEARN, OR WE PERISH.

MAY YOU FOREVER BE WELL AND FREE.