The earth was groaning in Mexico! Scary footage of strong magnitude 7.1 Acapulco earthquake!

A massive earthquake hit southwestern Mexico Tuesday night, causing massive tremors all the way to Mexico City and killing at least one person. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.0 quake struck 2.5 miles east of Los Organos de San Agustin, about eight miles from the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco. The earthquake occurred at an initial depth of 7.8 miles. According to the Mexican State Secretariat for Civil Protection, at least 92 aftershocks were recorded, including one with a force of 5.2 points. In Mexico City, shortly before the ground began to shake, an alarm sounded. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration originally issued a tsunami warning, but it was later canceled. Mayor Claudia Scheinbaum said there were no initial reports of serious damage in the capital, which is about 372 kilometers from the epicenter. Many homes have lost electricity and the authorities are working to restore it. Earthquakes in Mexico are not uncommon due to its location on the edge of the North American tectonic plate. In September 2017, the country experienced two major earthquakes.

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was initiated as an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It was designed and built by BAE Advanced Technologies. Its original purpose was to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance. As a university-owned facility, HAARP is a high-power, high-frequency transmitter used for study of the ionosphere.

The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde (an ionospheric sounding device), and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical processes that occur in the excited region.

Work on the HAARP facility began in 1993. The current working IRI was completed in 2007; its prime contractor was BAE Systems Advanced Technologies. As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs. In May 2014, it was announced that the HAARP program would be permanently shut down later in the year. After discussions between the parties, ownership of the facility and its equipment was transferred to the University of Alaska Fairbanks in August 2015.

HAARP is a target of conspiracy theorists, who claim that it is capable of "weaponizing" weather. Commentators and scientists say that advocates of this theory are uninformed, as claims made fall well outside the abilities of the facility, if not the scope of natural science.

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