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| - Fact Check: Neither of these videos shows devastation caused by massive Feb 6 earthquake in Turkey
Both the videos in circulation are old and not related to the recent earthquake in Turkey.
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India Today Fact Check
This is a 2021 video from Florida, United States. Additionally, the building in the video did not collapse because of an earthquake.
An earthquake of 7.8 magnitudes shook several provinces in Turkey and Syria on February 6. Over 600 people reportedly died during the natural disaster as several buildings collapsed. The death toll is expected to rise further.
Multiple images and videos from the quake-hit areas showing rescuers digging through the rubble of levelled buildings are now viral on social media. Among these are two videos that show high-rise buildings collapsing. Those sharing these videos claimed they were from the recent quake in Turkey.
AFWA investigation found that the videos are old and not related to the recent quake in Turkey and Syria.
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The first video, likely shot by a surveillance camera at night, shows two tall buildings crashing down one after the other. We noticed multiple people on Twitter pointing out that this video was from the US.
A reverse search of the video’s keyframes led us to a report by The Washington Post that contained the same footage. As per this report, published on June 29, 2021, the video showed the collapse of Champlain Towers South, which was located in Surfside, a town north of Miami Beach in Florida in the US. The 12-story structure that was 40 years old collapsed at about 1:30 am on June 24, 2021.
According to a recent report from January 11, 2023, the investigation into the buildings’ collapse is still underway and is expected to finish by 2025. Problems with the original design of the buildings are assumed to be the cause of the accident.
Multiple other media organisations also reported about the incident in 2021. As per reports, 98 people died in the tragedy.
The second video in circulation also shows a high-rise building crumbling into a pile of rubble. This video appears to have been shot during the day.
Reverse searching the video’s keyframes led us to the same clip shared by multiple people on Facebook in October 2020. As per these posts, the video was from an earthquake in Turkey.
The same video was also shared by multiple media organisations around the same time.
As per reports, from that time, the video was from an earthquake that occurred in Izmir, a city on Turkey’s Aegean coast, on October 30, 2020.
It is, thus, clear that both the videos in circulation are old and not related to the recent earthquake in Turkey.
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