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After a powerful earthquake of 7.8 magnitude shook Turkey and Syria, killing over 1,900 people and injuring thousands, several videos of tsunamis are making the rounds on social media.
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Both videos are old and unrelated to the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake. The first video is from the 2017 Greenland tsunami and the second one is from the 2011 Japan tsunami.
On February 6, 2023, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 shook Turkey and Syria. More than 1,900 people died, thousands have been injured. Following the quake, Italy's Civil Protection Department issued a tsunami warning, recommending people move away from coastal areas. Later, however, it reduced the alert and tweeted that it had been withdrawn.
Meanwhile, horrific videos of a tsunami are making round on social media. In one video, one can see a red house has been washed away by a huge wave.
Another clip shows several huge waves crashing on a bank and washing away cars and other things in their path. Aghast screams of people can also be heard in this video. People sharing these two videos claimed they were from the Turkey-Syria coastline. The archived version of these clips can be seen here and here.
AFWA's investigation found both videos are old. The first video is from 2017's Greenland tsunami. The second one is from Japan’s 2011 tsunami.
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A reverse search of keyframes from the first video led us to the Argentine daily La Naci³n's website. On April 28, 2021, the website published a news report with a similar image. A rough translation of the Spanish report informed that on June 2017, a tsunami hit Greenland following a magnitude 4.1 earthquake.
A keyword search on YouTube yielded the same video on a channel called Licet Studios on April 25, 2021, that claimed it was from Greenland. The YouTube channel of National Geographic also published a similar news video on June 27, 2017. Per the video, a deadly tsunami hit a remote region of Greenland in June 2017. Four people died and dozens were injured. Experts speculated the tsunami may have been caused by a rare 4.0 magnitude earthquake or possibly by a large landslide in the area.
Responding to the second video, many people claimed it was from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Subsequently, we ran a keyword search on the internet and found the video in several news reports. On March 14, 2011, the video was shared by ABC News, Arabian Business and the Associated Press. Reportedly, it showed a tsunami wave smashing into the Japanese town of Miyako.
This same video had also gone viral on social media in 2021. At the time, many claimed it showed flooding at the Three Gorges Dam in China. Reuters and other fact-checkers had debunked the claim.
Thus, it is clear that these two videos are old and unrelated to the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake.
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