A Feb. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) features a video compilation of destruction purportedly from the Feb. 6 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
"What really happened in Turkey?" reads part of the post's caption. "A haarp generated earthquake."
It was shared more than 500 times in less than a week.
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The earthquakes occurred naturally in a well-known fault zone, seismologists said. The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, studies the ionosphere and "cannot create or amplify natural disasters," its program manager says.
More than 36,000 people are dead after earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, USA TODAY reported. Experts said the disaster was natural and not the result of any human system.
"Nobody has the ability to intentionally create a large earthquake with any degree of certainty," said Rachel Abercrombie, a seismologist at Boston University. "Various human activities – such as building large water reservoirs and fracking and waste-water injection related to hydrocarbon extraction and geothermal energy projects – can induce earthquakes, but never as large as this."
Induced earthquakes do not reach magnitudes above the mid-5 range, said Jonathan Stewart, an environmental engineering professor at the University of California...
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