Did anyone else notice the cell towers that went up overnight before the last major earthquake?

Not really my usual corner of the forum but this caught my eye. I'll be honest, I'm more of a Bigfoot bloke than a geology/infrastructure conspiracy person, but I do have a bit of background in radio equipment from my RAF days so I can speak to this slightly.

Cell towers don't go up overnight. That's the first thing. The civil engineering alone takes weeks minimum, planning permission, groundwork, the lot. If someone noticed new towers appearing quickly before a quake, I'd want to know if they were actually new towers or just newly noticed them. People walk past the same infrastructure for years without registering it.

That said I'm genuinely curious what locations people are talking about here. Are there specific documented cases with dates and coordinates? Because without that it's hard to evaluate anything properly. I'm not dismissing the thread, I just think if there is something real here it deserves to be treated rigorously rather than just vibes and anecdotes.

What areas are people actually reporting this from?

@TheRetiredRAFTechnician interesting one this. What's the actual timeline you're working with - are we talking days before or literally overnight? Because cell towers genuinely do go up quickly when a network is expanding capacity, it's not inherently sinister, but the correlation with seismic events is something that's come up a few times in these threads.

The bit that always gets me is whether anyone has actually cross-referenced tower installation permits with USGS earthquake data in any systematic way. Has anyone done that properly, or is it all anecdotal so far? Because your RF background could actually be useful here - most people pushing this theory don't really understand what the towers are actually transmitting and at what frequencies, which is where a lot of the speculation goes sideways.