No, the earthquake in Turkey was not caused by HAARP technology

No, the earthquake in Turkey was not caused by HAARP technology
No, the earthquake in Turkey was not caused by HAARP technology

On February 6, 2023, a post was published on Facebook which reads (with the original punctuation): «It is written ‘Earthquake’, it reads ‘Haarp’ Turkey wanted to leave EuroNato, but the Scienzah says it doesn’t want to say nothing”.

The reference is to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria in the early hours of 6 February 2023, causing thousands of victims.

Therefore, according to the author of the post, the earthquake in Turkey was caused by Haarp technology, because the country wanted to leave NATO.

It is a series of news without any foundation. Let’s see why.

As we have reconstructed in an in-depth study on this topic, theHigh frequency active auroral research programme (Haarp) is a scientific installation built in 1993 with the aim of studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere (a part of the atmosphere located at a height ranging from 80 to about 650 kilometers above the earth’s surface) for understand how this can affect military and civilian communication and navigation systems.

The research station is located in Alaska (United States) and the main instrument used inside is the Ionospheric research instrument (Iri), an array of 180 radio antennas spread over an area of ​​0.13 square kilometres. The site was initially managed by the United States Air Force and Navy, until responsibility for HAARP facilities and equipment was formally transferred to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF) in 2015.

Over the years this type of technology has often found itself at the center of various conspiracy theories, such as those that claim it would be able to manipulate the weather or cause natural disasters such as earthquakes. These are allegations without any scientific basis.

As the experts of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) explained, the earthquake of 6 February 2023 was instead caused by the activation of what experts call a “transcurrent fault”, where a horizontal movement takes place, shallow depth. The event, the experts specify, «broke an almost vertical left lateral fault with a northeast-southwest orientation (East Anatolian Fault) or a right lateral fault with a southeast-northwest orientation (Dead Sea Fault). Based on the magnitude of the earthquake, it can be estimated that the rupture affected a portion of the fault about 190 km long and about 25 km wide.

Ingv also recalls that the region where the earthquake occurred in Turkey and Syria is seismically active. “Since 1970, three earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater have occurred within 250 km of the February 6, 2023 earthquake.” The largest of these, of magnitude 6.7, occurred on January 24, 2020 northeast of the February 6 earthquake, also in the vicinity of the East Anatolian Fault.

Finally, the news according to which Turkey has declared its intention to leave the Atlantic alliance is not confirmed by any official source. The Turkish country has been a member of NATO since 1952. On the website of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs we read that «Turkey, a faithful ally of NATO, considers the Alliance as the cornerstone for the security of the Euro-Atlantic region of which it’s an integral part.” We also specify that after the earthquake, Turkey officially sent a request for help to NATO, requesting, among other things, medical staff and equipment, search and rescue units and field hospitals.

Photo credits: Secoy, A, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

 
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