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| - Fact Check: Old videos resurface after 7.1 quake strikes Kermadec Islands in New Zealand
Netizens took to social media, posting videos of earthquakes and floods claiming them to be from New Zealand.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from February 2023 and shows an earthquake-hit region in the southeastern Turkish province of Hatay.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck the Kermadec Islands region, located north of New Zealand on March 16 morning. Shortly after, the US Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami alert for nearby, uninhabited islands in a 300-km radius. The National Emergency Management Agency later said that there was no tsunami threat for New Zealand. Nonetheless, netizens took to social media, posting videos of earthquakes and floods claiming them to be from New Zealand. These, however, turned out to be from other parts of the world.
In this article, we will debunk four such videos.
Video 1
The first video that made its way to social media shows water splashing out of a swimming pool, with people all around it.
A reverse search of the video’s keyframes led us to a report by The Independent which had carried the same video. As per this report published on May 12, 2015, the video is from the Nepal earthquake and shows tremors at a hotel pool in Nepal’s Kathmandu. A massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal in April 2015.
The same video was also shared by multiple YouTube channels in April 2015, affirming it is from Summit Hotel in Kathmandu.
Video 2
The second video purportedly shows an aerial view of the disaster that hit the region. Several buildings can be seen reduced to rubble in this footage.
With the help of a reverse image search, we found the same video in a report by The Guardian. According to this report, published on The Guardian’s YouTube channel on February 9, 2023, the video shows an earthquake-hit region in the southeastern Turkish province of Hatay. A series of earthquakes that hit Turkey in February left large-scale destruction in Hatay.
Video 3
The third video in question shows four people standing in a forest when the ground starts shaking vigorously, causing one of them to fall.
With the help of a reverse search and relevant keywords, we found the same video posted by Zhuoxi Township Mountaineering Association on Facebook on September 18, 2022. Zhuoxi Township is a mountain indigenous village in Hualien County, Taiwan. According to this Facebook post, when the earthquake occurred, the members of the mountaineering group were at an altitude of 1,000 metres.
Taiwanese and Chinese news portals also reported on this video in September 2022. As per the New York Post report, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on September 18, 2022.
Video 4
The fourth video features a few cars being swept away by gushing flood water. Several vehicles can also be seen stuck in the flood.
Using reverse image search, we found the same video shared by several social media users and media organisations from Turkey on March 15, 2023.
As per these social media posts and media reports, the video was from the flash floods that hit the southeastern provinces of AdÄñyaman and ÅanlÄñurfa in Turkey on March 15.
Thus, all four videos are from other parts of the world and are not related to New Zealand. Moreover, the Kermadec Islands where the earthquake struck on March 16 are mostly uninhabited. They are a group of volcanic islands in the northernmost part of New Zealand.
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