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On February 6, around 4:15 a.m. local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south-central Turkey near the Turkey/Syria border.
The death toll in Turkey and Syria has surpassed 11,000 people in the world`s deadliest earthquake disaster in more than a decade.
According to WHO, the affected regions in Turkey and Syria are home to around 23 million people including 1.4 million children.
Many aftershocks followed the earthquake and a second major earthquake hit the region after 9 hours at 7.5 magnitudes causing serious further damage and destruction of damaged buildings.
Several social media users are engaged in what some are calling a "conspiracy theory" where they believe that the earthquake in Turkey and neighboring Syria was created by the United States using the American "HAARP" technology.
The American research initiative called HAARP has been active since the early 1990s.
"HAARP is the world`s most capable high-power, high-frequency transmitter for study of the ionosphere," a university release by the University of Alaska reads.
"Operation of the research facility was transferred from the United States Air Force to the University of Alaska Fairbanks on August 11, 2015, allowing HAARP to continue with the exploration of ionospheric phenomenology via a land-use cooperative research and development agreement," it continues.
Many people who use social media think that HAARP is being used to punish Turkey for refusing to work with the West.
Therefore, the United States has not responded to the accusations.
In October 2022, HAARP began its largest set of experiments at its new observatory but did not mention earthquakes.
The Arabian Peninsula is part of a tectonic plate that is making its way north into the Eurasian Plate, and the entire nation of Turkey is getting squeezed aside.
Turkey`s two main fault zones — the East Anatolian and the North Anatolian — make it one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
These fault zones are a result of the movement of large portions of Earth`s crust, or tectonic plates, relative to each other.
One zone includes the Anatolian Plate, which makes up most of Turkey.
The East Anatolian zone encompasses the area where there is the movement of the Anatolian Plate relative to the Arabian Plate, which is to the southeast of the Anatolian.
Most of the largest earthquakes in the past hundred years have been along the North Anatolian Fault.
This earthquake occurred because "two pieces of the Earth are sliding horizontally past each other," Steckler says.
Plate Movement: In a strike-slip earthquake, two tectonic plates move horizontally past each other, whereas in a regular earthquake, the movement is vertical.
Causes: The cause of strike-slip fault earthquakes is due to the movement of the two plates against one another and the release of built-up strain.
In the Eastern Mediterranean region comprising Turkey, Syria, and Jordan, tectonics are dominated by complex interactions between the African, Arabian, and Eurasian tectonic plates, and the Anatolian tectonic block.
Turkey sits on the Anatolian tectonic plate, which borders two major faults, the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) that cuts across the country from west to east, and the East Anatolian Fault (EAF) in the southeast.
According to one estimate, almost 95% of Turkey's land mass is prone to earthquakes, while about a third of the country is at high risk, including the areas around the major cities of Istanbul and Izmir and the region of East Anatolia.
Turkey has seismic codes to try to prevent buildings from collapsing, but Bulut says because this region has escaped a major quake for decades, it's possible that some older buildings are vulnerable.
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