A video of a massive cloud forming over a coastal city has been shared repeatedly in multiple social media posts alongside the false claim it shows a "strange HAARP cloud in Syria" after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated large swaths of the country as well as neighbouring Turkey. The posts misleadingly refer to a former US military project called High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), often cited by conspiracy theorists as the cause of various climate and weather anomalies. But the clip actually shows a storm cloud over Australia's Gold Coast and there is no evidence that HAARP was linked to the Turkey-Syria earthquake.

"Strange HAARP cloud over Syria after Turkey earthquake," reads the false Korean-language claim shared alongside the video here on Facebook on February 18, 2023.

The video appears to show a massive storm forming over a coastal city, as a siren rings out. English-language text in the video reads, "Incredible storm."

The post links to an identical one on Rumble, a North America-based video-sharing platform, which further claims HAARP "is a frequency weapon similar to 5G tech but much more powerful."

Screenshot of the false post shared on Facebook. Captured February 22, 2023.

The photos circulated after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked part of eastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6, killing tens of thousands of people and felling thousands of buildings.

As of February 22, the death toll from the quake stands at nearly 46,000.

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