The Horizon Project earthquake chart - where did they get their data?

[KathyT]

Originally Posted by mu2143

The link from USGS is from the GOV hmmm the government.
O yea they are lying all the time!!!
Government = Control of the mind

No, Mu2143, I don’t think you can conclude “they” (government) is “lying all the time”. There are many agencies in the government that are doing a good job of gathering data for the public. They’re not all bad. And yes, I do think there are arms of certain agencies like the CIA, and military that are involved in huge coverups.

I think the data from USGS is pretty accurate. Much of it is dependent on the seismology equipment they use, and for sure the equipment they’ve used over the past 20 years is a whole lot better than what they had in the first 20 years of the 20th century. One has to take into account the quality of data USGS has been able to track for 100 years… they can only work with the tools they had at the time… and we’re talking worldwide, where some areas have likely had no seismographs at all in earlier years.

Originally Posted by Koyaanisqatsi

great work Kathy! the chart used by the horizon project is alarming indeed. how brilliant of you to look into this. your research seems to suggest that either HP or USGS is lying. who & why?

I wasn’t ready to conclude it was ‘who was lying’, I just want to get the facts.. the truth. So I wrote Mr. Brent Miller of the Horizon Project, and challenged his data. I got his response. His response was

11/29/2008
“Please read the news article carefully as the data is in relation to "deadly" or "historic" quakes. The data and graph are correct. Below is the link...”

And he links me back to his graph, not to the “data” behind his statistics.

My opinion is this: He and the Horizon Project are manipulative forecasters.... They’ve cherry picked the earthquake data that suits them. They’ve picked an average of 40 earthquakes out of an average of 150 strong earthquakes PER YEAR for the past century, and failed to tell us which ones “they’ve picked”. No explanation of where, when, or why. Then they’ve produced a graph to deceive the public by representing a graph that is “Worldwide” and don’t tell the public they’ve dropped another 90 earthquakes off their graph. That graph is going around the internet, and the message it visually tells, is “earthquakes are recently increasing by a huge scale”. They use this to prey on people’s emotions (their quote: “earthquake data shows frightening trend”), so that people will believe somehow they know more than the average guy… and, oh, by the way, maybe you’ll donate money to them. Geeze.

Mr. Brent Miller kind of reminds me of a snake oil medicine seller.