USGS website traffic causing reporting blackout?

After the Japan 8.9 on 3/11/11 unique traffic to the usgs.gov earthquake monitoring site quadrupled overnight. With 400,000+ page views daily and a site ranking in the top 1500.. It begs the question: Is the site now reflecting the true data or are some seismic readings being manipulated or altogether omitted to avoid creating panic?

[link to www.checksitetraffic.com]


As a government run website can it really be trusted to reflect the raw accurate data in such tumultuous times?
Has anyone noticed discrepancies between other reputable earthquake watch sites and the u.s.g.s?
What other sites do GLP'rs follow and trust for reporting?

Last Edited by hijinx on 04/14/2011 12:07 AM