![]() The first clip was in fact showing a series of huge waves hitting the Durban North Beach in South Africa in March 2017, as seen in this news report from the time ( timestamp 1:33). Not confirmed Is this real?" the caption said.īut both videos are dated, and do not show anything related to Turkey or the megaquake that hit it on Monday, February 6. "BREAKING: Nuclear plant explode due to #Earthquake in #Turkey. #earthquake," a verified Twitter account CBKNEWS121 claimed in a post viewed more than 120,000 times.īREAKING: Nuclear plant explode due to #Earthquake in #Turkey.įollow #PrayForTurkey #TurkeyEarthquake #deprem #Tsunami #Syria /NbOhm4ykmR- muhammad Din February 7, 2023 The devastating earthquake in southeastern Turkey, which has already taken the lives of more than 5,000 people and displaced thousands more, has been no exception, with old content decontextualized and miscaptioned to misleadingly tie it to the earthquake.įootage of what appear to be tsunami waves hitting a coast line has been shared on Twitter, falsely linked with the Gaziantep quake. GettyĪs Newsweek reported in the past, major global events and catastrophes often act as a magnet for speculation and falsehoods, not least because content sourced from conflict or disaster zones is often hard to verify before it spreads far and wide. In this combination image, a man walks across the rubble of collapsed building towards a building still standing in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, on Februa file photo the scene of an explosion in Beirut (top left) on Augand people watch as waves of foam and seawater crash (bottom left) into Three Anchor Bay in Cape Town on June 7, 2017. ![]()
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