Posted on 05/30/2015 7:06:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In the past two days, malfunctions in the network of sensors that detect earthquakes in Northern California have issued three false alarms, forcing the U.S. Geological Survey to make a series of embarrassing retractions..
Just after midnight Friday morning, a magnitude 6.7 quake struck off the coast of Alaska. When its waves reached sensors operated by the Northern California Seismic Network, they were mistakenly interpreted as a 5.1 temblor near the Oregon border in Lewiston, officials say.
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The error occurred again Saturday morning after a magnitude 7.8 quake struck off the coast of Japan and the same Northern California sensors misinterpreted its wake as a 4.8 magnitude shaker near San Simeon and a 5.5 magnitude rumble near Brooktrails.
“When the waves from these big quakes hit [the Northern California] network they think it's a local quake,” said John Bellini, a USGS geophysicist. “They have some kind of filtering system, but it's not working properly.”
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But I felt them all!
OMG ROFL
Fake quakes.
Broke the Thelmannn Wires connected to the high speed ectapolychromate signodes.
DAMN STRAIGHT!
They were caused by ghost fracking.
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