A Feb. 6 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a Truth Social post on the Feb. 6 Turkey earthquakes.
"According to a firsthand source I have in Istanbul, Turkey, this 'earthquake' is a systemic attack against Kurdish people, who are anti-Islam," reads part of the post. "This is an election year and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not want to lose power."
The Truth Social post generated over 200 likes in less than a week. An Instagram post with the same claim generated over 1,000 likes before it was deleted.
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Geological experts say the earthquakes and aftershocks that struck Turkey and Syria occurred naturally on a well-known fault system from the pressure of Earth's tectonic plates. The disasters were not man-made, as the post claims.
More than 20,000 people are dead after magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes and a series of aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, as USA TODAY reported.
But contrary to the post’s claim, the earthquakes were not man-made, Rachel Abercrombie, who researches the earthquake rupture process at Boston University, told USA TODAY in an email.
"Nobody has the ability to intentionally create a large earthquake with any degree of certainty," Abercrombie said. "Various human activities –...
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