<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I was watching some of the
earthquake data coming in via the firenet feed yesterday. However, some of
the "earthquakes" that are marked on the map do not exist in the USGS
list of earthquakes at all. Not even close.</div><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>For
example, at this moment there is an earthquake with the name 092339q12
which would be September 9 2339 UTC and a magnitude of 1.2. No such
earthquake exists in the feed from USGS. I've already searched and my
earthquake "ticker" never showed one either. So where did it come from?</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Same thing for 091517q15. No matching earthquake in the database.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>However, a set of them marked 081703q16, 082059q15, 082344q18 and 090255q20 **DO** show up in the quake list and on my ticker.</span></div><div
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;
font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>So what is inserting the bogus quakes into the feed?</span></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>