Viral videos show a powerful earthquake that struck Japan on April 20, 2026.

Original review summary

Fact Crescendo found that the videos do not show Japan’s April 20, 2026 earthquake: one is footage of the January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, and the other was posted in 2025. The review says a strong earthquake did strike northern Japan on April 20, 2026, but the videos were from earlier events.[S1]