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Disasters & emergencies fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about disasters & emergencies. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

3,259 published reviews in this topic

dpaDisasters & emergencies

Cette vidéo montre un énorme tsunami au Japon le 23 décembre 2023.

Publisher’s rating: Non, la vidéo date en réalité de 2011. Elle montre un tsunami frapper la ville japonaise de Miyako après l'important tremblement de terre qui a touché le pays cette année-là.

The video does not show a tsunami in Japan on December 23, 2023. The review identifies it as footage of the tsunami striking Miyako in 2011, and says the circulating TikTok version was flipped.

dpaDisasters & emergencies

Des vagues de tsunami de cinq mètres de haut ont atteint la côte ouest du Japon après un tremblement de terre le 1er janvier 2024.

Publisher’s rating: Les images sont anciennes. Elles montrent le tsunami qui a touché la ville de Miyako, dans le nord-est du Japon, le 11 mars 2011. Une alerte au tsunami a été émise après les séismes du 1er janvier 2024, mais est désormais levée.

The video shows the tsunami that struck Miyako on 11 March 2011, not events following the 1 January 2024 earthquake. The tsunami alert issued after the 2024 earthquakes was lifted on 2 January.

FACTLYDisasters & emergencies

Visuals of the 2024 Japan earthquake

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

FACTLY reports that videos shared as visuals of the 2024 Japan earthquake were old and unrelated; some showed the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Its reverse-image searches traced other clips to events including a 2022 Tonga eruption and a 2023 Türkiye earthquake rescue.

日本ファクトチェックセンターDisasters & emergencies

(能登半島地震)過去の津波映像や人工地震説

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review found that tsunami videos circulated as footage of the Noto Peninsula earthquake were actually from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. It also found that a video presented as evidence of an artificial earthquake showed a 2021 U.S. Navy shock-trial test, and that another post used footage unrelated to the Noto earthquake.

Fact CrescendoDisasters & emergencies

Claim: old video being shared that video of the tsunami first wave in japan

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

Fact Crescendo reports that the video had circulated on social media for years and was falsely presented as footage of the tsunami that struck Japan on January 1, 2024. The review says its search found the video posted as early as 2019, but it could not establish exactly when the footage was recorded.