After natural tectonic phenomena such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake , conspiracy theories , usually relating to the armed forces of the United States and formerly the Soviet Union , often arise , though no evidence is advanced . After the Haiti earthquake it was widely reported that president Hugo Chávez of Venezuela made unsupported allegations that it had been caused by testing of a US tectonic weapon . The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda of Moscow reported on page 1 on 30 May 1992 that " a geophysical or tectonic weapon was actually developed in the USSR despite the UN Convention " , but that Chief Seismologist Major-General V Bochrov of the USSR Ministry of Defence categorically rejected any hints on the existence of tectonic weapons
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
Tectonic weapon