A video showing several houses violently shaking and eventually collapsing is going viral on social media.
The claim links it to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Tibet and Nepal on 7 January.
How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search using some of the keyframes from the viral video and this led us to several Japanese reports from February 2024.
According to an article shared by The Japan News, thos video was recorded on a dashcam when an earthquake struck Suzu, part of the Ishikawa Prefecture in the Noto Peninsula of Japan on 1 January 2024.
It also added that this video was later shared by Chojukai, a social welfare corporation that operates nursing homes in Suzu.
This earthquake also caused a tsunami in the region.
We also found another video shared on YouTube by a Japanese news channel, ANN News.
This was shared on 2 February 2024 and the description stated that it shows houses collapsing due to a strong aftershocks, immediately after the Noto Peninsula earthquake.
Conclusion: An old video from Japan is being falsely linked to the earthquake that recently hit Tibet and Nepal.
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