DDHK. ORG – Lightning appears during an earthquake Turki M7,8, 6 on Monday (2/2023/XNUMX) was caught on video by residents and went viral on social media.
Reporting from Second, The video circulating on social media has a narration:
“The earthquake in Turkey looks like a punitive operation (HAARP) by NATO or the US against Turkey. The video shows lightning strikes, which are uncommon in earthquakes, but are common in HAARP operations.”
It turns out that the video circulating is dated 2022, not 2023. So most likely the video is not the video of the Turkish earthquake on Monday (6/2/2023) yesterday.
HAARP, according to the haarp.gi.alaska.edu website, is the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program or the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program is a scientific effort aimed at studying the nature and behavior of the ionosphere.
The ionosphere extends roughly 50 to 400 miles above the Earth's surface, right at the edge of space. Together with the neutral upper atmosphere, the ionosphere forms the boundary between Earth's lower atmosphere – where we live and breathe – and the vacuum of space.
HAARP's research facility was transferred from the United States Air Force to the University of Alaska Fairbanks on August 11, 2015, enabling HAARP to continue exploring ionospheric phenomenology through a collaborative land use research and development agreement.
HAARP has been the object of conspiracy theories related to climate change for some time.
As reported by NBC News, in May 2014, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2010 accused HAARP of being the trigger for the Haiti earthquake in 2010.
Reported by NPR in June 2014, conspiracy theorists accused the HAARP program of being able to do everything from mind control to disrupt global communications.
Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist at the University of Maryland and HAARP expert researcher, said HAARP was designed to study the ionosphere, the region of space filled with charged particles.
Charged particles respond to radio waves, so HAARP can study the ionosphere by emitting radio waves straight up, for hundreds of miles.
"It's like a radio station, but much more powerful," said Papadopoulos.
HAARP is so powerful, it can create artificial auroras high in the sky. This research has the potential to improve satellite communications and navigation. And the military has used it to learn things they don't talk about.
“Sometimes there are secret experiments,” said Papadopoulos.
HAARP can turn the ionosphere into a giant antenna that can be used to transmit signals underwater.
But to date there has not been a single allegation of a conspiracy theory related to HAARP that has been proven or confirmed.
Lightning During an Earthquake
Head of the Earthquake and Tsunami Center of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Daryono tweeted on his Twitter account on Tuesday (7/2/2023) saying that the phenomenon of lightning during an earthquake is common.
"The phenomenon of lighting when releasing earthquake energy is one thing that is very common in various places on earth, namely electromagnetic wave activity. Don't think too far about HAARP," he tweeted.
On the United States Geological Survey (USGS) website that Daryono has included, it is explained that phenomena such as lightning flashes, balls of light, bands, and steady flares, which are reported to be associated with earthquakes are called Earth Quake Lamps (EQL) alias earthquake lights.
Geophysicists differ on the degree to which they think that individual reports of unusual lightning near the time and epicenter of an earthquake truly represent EQL.
Some experts doubt that any of these reports constitute strong evidence for EQL, whereas others think that at least some of the reports make sense about EQL.
Hypothesis Physics-based studies have been proposed to explain specific reports of EQL problems, such as those around causal faults during major earthquakes.
On the other hand, some EQL reports have been related to electrical arcing from vibrating power lines. [DDHK News]
