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ఒక ప్రదేశంలో సంభవించిన క్లౌడ్ బరస్ట్కు (cloud burst) సంబంధించిన దృశ్యాలు.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Viral video shows Mumbai airport flooded by August 2025 rains, causing over 250 flight disruptions
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
FACTLY reports that heavy rain disrupted flights at Mumbai airport on 19 August 2025, but says the viral video was not from that event. It identifies the footage as showing flooding at Chennai airport in December 2023 caused by Cyclone Michaung.
Visuals of the flash flood occurred in Uttarakhand on 5 August 2025.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
تداولت حسابات على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوك ويوتيوب مقطع فيديو ادعت أنها توثق سيول جرفت السيارات في التواهي والمعلا وكريتر في عدن بعد أمطار غزيرة شهدتها المدينة خلال الساعات الماضية.
Publisher’s rating: غير صحيح جزئيا
日航123便墜落事故で機長が「被弾したぞ」と発言?
Publisher’s rating: 根拠不明
The claim concerns a video presented as a “complete” recording of the JAL 123 cockpit voice recorder (CVR). It attributes statements including “I’ve been hit” and “They really fired” to the captain, suggesting that fighter aircraft were involved in the 1985 crash. The review says the video adds red captions over unclear or silent portions of the audio, without showing how those words were established. To check the claim, the review compares the alleged dialogue with the official accident investigation record. It reports that the Accident Investigation Commission published its report in 1987 and that an appendix transcribes the recovered CVR recording second by second. The transcript includes cockpit conversations, but not the claimed exchange about a Phantom aircraft following JAL 123 or the statements about being hit and fired upon. The review also reports that the words cannot be heard in the circulated audio. The review concludes that the video provides no evidentiary basis for the red captions: the relevant portions are silent or interrupted, and the post supplies no explanation for how the captions were derived. Its conclusion is specific to the alleged CVR statements and the video examined; the excerpt does not describe an independent audio-forensics analysis.
السعودية: أكبر حادث تصادم في العالم: تصادم 50 مركبة وخسارة العديد من الأشخاص لأرواحهم
Publisher’s rating: خطأ
May video na ipinamumukhang gumuho ang parte ng Skyway dahil sa lindol.
Publisher’s rating: Peke
ஆமாம், இந்தப் புகைப்படம் உண்மைதான். உத்தரகாண்டில் மேக வெடிப்பு சம்பவத்தில் தாரளி கிராமம் தொடர்பு இல்லாததாக மாறியது. சாலைகள் அடைக்கப்பட்டதால், நிவாரணப் பணிகளைத் தொடங்கத் தேவையான ஜேசிபியை சாலையில் இருந்து எடுக்க முடியவில்லை, எனவே "முழு ஜேசிபி ஆம் முழு ஜேசிபி" சினூக் ஹெலிகாப்டரில் இணைக்கப்பட்டு சம்பவ இடத்திற்கு நிவாரணம் மற்றும் மீட்புப் பணிகள் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டன. இது மாறிவரும் இந்தியா, புதிய இந்தியா, வலுவான இந்தியா மற்றும் நவீன இந்தியா... வாழ்க இந்தியா!.
Publisher’s rating: fake
中国の土石流?
Publisher’s rating: 誤り
A video circulated with a caption suggesting disasters were occurring in China, but the review found it showed a landslide in India. The footage was from a landslide in northern India on August 5, 2025.
Cloudburst scene in India - Umeed News
Publisher’s rating: fake
ఆగష్టు 2025 ఉత్తరాఖండ్ వరదల సహాయక చర్యల్లో భాగంగా ఎక్స్కవేటర్ను మోసుకెళ్తున్న చినూక్ హెలికాప్టర్.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Cloud burst in Uttarkashi on 5/8/2025. More than 40 vehicles are trapped in the debris. An Alto and a Scorpio car are seen in the video below the mud.
Publisher’s rating: false
The viral photo shows the condition of a school after flash floods in Uttarakhand in August 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review reports that the image is AI-generated, citing verification by Hive and Sightengine. It also says Uttarakhand Police clarified on 08 August 2025 that the photo was falsely linked to the Harshil–Dharali disaster.
Photo of a Chinook helicopter deployed to Dharali to transport a JCB excavator after the 5 August 2025 flash floods in Uttarakhand.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
Another video has come from Uttarkashi Dharali; the situation is very bad.
Publisher’s rating: false
The viral video shows people being rescued during the recent August 2025 Uttarkashi cloudburst.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The video shows a truck narrowly escaping a landslide in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The review says the video does not show a landslide in Chamba, but an incident in West Sumatra, Indonesia, on 17 May 2024. It reports that the truck narrowly escaped as the landslide struck.
The viral photo shows the aftermath of a recent cloudburst in Uttarakhand.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
FACTLY reports that the viral photo was AI-generated, not an authentic image of the Uttarkashi cloudburst aftermath. It says Hive and Sightengine identified it as AI-generated, and that the viral image did not match photos of the actual damage. [S1]
Cloud seeding over parts of Texas two days before the floods caused or contributed to the disaster
Publisher’s rating: False
The review reports that Rainmaker’s most recent operation near Kerr County was on July 2, two days before the floods, but concludes it did not cause or contribute to them. It cites experts who said the seeded particles would have dispersed and that the July 2 operation would not have changed rainfall from the storms that hit on July 4.
தனியார் உடற்பயிற்சிக் கூடத்தில் ஏற்பட்ட தீ விபத்துக்கு அரசு ஏன் புது வாகனம் வாங்கி தரணும் தனியார் உடற்பயிற்சி கூடம் இன்சூரன்ஸ் பண்ணியிருக்குமே... மக்கள் வரிப்பணத்தை எப்படி எல்லாம் கரியாக்குகிறீர்கள்... இதுக்கு பொம்மை மாடலா
Publisher’s rating: fals