Alaska And Earthquake

Does a viral TikTok video of disaster scenes document the impacts of an earthquake in Alaska? No, that's not true: The opening shot was taken in Taiwan and the other eight clips that make up the video were either not captured in Alaska, taken before the July 2025 Alaskan quake referred to in the TikTok video, or untraceable to Alaska.…

Do some videos circulating online show the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck California on December 5, 2024? No, that's not true: Several videos posted online were mislabeled as showing California when they were actually filmed in other locations during past earthquakes. In reality the old footage ranged from Taiwan to Anchorage, Alaska, to Japan. One example of a recycled earthquake video…

Does a video shared on Facebook genuinely show underwater HAARP devices surrounding Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton making landfall? No, that's not true: The video shows a coral restoration project in the Florida Keys, two marine scientists told Lead Stories. The antenna-like objects seen in the video are part of that coral reef rehabilitation project. A version of the claim…

Is a Safe Zones Map that shows parts of the United States that may be submerged by "the sea" or wracked by earthquakes an official map? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to back up this claim. Additionally, the map and its accompanying text look and sound suspiciously similar to maps produced by Lori Toye, an author and self-proclaimed…

Can the Alaska-based HAARP project, a former military research facility for studying the ionosphere, remotely initiate natural disasters such as earthquakes anywhere on Earth? No, that's not true: An "explanation" of its purported capabilities to manufacture disasters, posted on social media, contradicts well-established scientific facts. The manager of the HAARP project told Lead Stories that the facility "cannot create or…

Was the devastating temblor that struck Turkey on February 6, 2023 actually a human-caused earthquake triggered by a weapon from an ionospheric research program called HAARP, in response to the Turkish president's move to block an expansion of NATO? No, that's not true: Experts that spoke to Lead Stories say the quake's occurrence is a natural event supported by scientific…

Does a video show Somali pirates "messing" with a Russian ship? No, that's not true: The video includes footage from a Spike TV show in 2010 showing the U.S. Navy firing at Somali pirates in small boats, and footage of the U.S. Coast Guard sinking a Japanese fishing boat. Neither clip shows Somali pirates "messing" with a Russian ship. The…

Did the volcanic eruption on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands on September 19, 2021, trigger a tsunami warning in the U.S.? No, that's not true: The National Tsunami Warning Center, part of the U.S. National Weather Service, confirmed that the claim is false. The claim appeared in an Instagram post on September 22, 2021. The narrator of the…

Was a post's prediction accurate for a 6.0 to 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the San Francisco Bay between October 1 and 2, 2020? No, as anyone in the Bay Area or keeping up with news can testify, that didn't happen. Earthquakes are still unpredictable. While this graphic contains very specific details that give the impression of this being a measured,…