Claim: A clip shows a building coming down amid the earthquake that struck Venezuela on 24 June 2026.
Fact: The footage is unrelated to the recent earthquakes in Venezuela. It appeared online in October 2023 and shows a building demolition in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
On 26 June, a Facebook user posted a clip apparently showing a building collapsing in Venezuela after deadly earthquakes hit the country on 24 June. The caption stated: “Footage shows a building coming down in earthquake-hit Venezuela.”
Screenshot of the Facebook post.
Twin deadly earthquakes, a 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquake, hit Venezuela on 24 June, just 39 seconds apart. The death toll from the earthquakes has risen to 1,450 as of the time of writing.
This article only fact-checks the clip and not the caption.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched keyframes via Yandex and found that the video is from Turkey and predates the recent earthquakes in Venezuela.
An Instagram user posted the same clip on 1 October 2023, with the following caption [translated from Turkish into English via Google Translate]: “North City B Block Controlled Demolition #Kahramanmaraş”.
Left: Clip from June 2026. Right: Same footage from October 2023.
On 1 October 2023, “Çağdaş” a daily newspaper from Batman, Turkey, apparently posted a screenshot that matches the 2026 post, with the title, [translated from Turkish into English], “The building, which was undergoing controlled demolition, collapsed like this”. The article stated that the demolition of buildings took place in Kahramanmaraş, a city in Turkey, which was hit by an earthquake in February 2023. Particularly, the article mentioned the demolition of a 15-storey building at the “Batı Şehir Park Site”.
Another Turkish platform also published the image matching a moment from the clip being fact-checked in its article about the demolitions on 1 October 2023.
Ensonhaber.com, a Turkish news platform, posted the same footage in its article, titled [translated from Turkish into English via Google], “Controlled demolitions continue in Kahramanmaraş.” on 1 October 2023, confirming that it is old and likely from Turkey. “During the demolition of the 15-story Batı Şehir Park Site building, the building collapsed forward. Citizens watching the operation experienced a brief moment of panic during the demolition. Those moments were recorded by other citizens in the area,” according to the same report, translated via Google from Turkish into English.
Soch Fact Check then geolocated the footage based on the above description. The location, the point of view from which the video was captured, is at coordinates 37.595646, 36.830067. Comparing the footage with Google’s street view imagery from 2022 shows the buildings in question were intact at the time.
The left frame shows the viral clip, in which the area matches the 2022 street view imagery from Google of “Batı Şehir Park Sitesi” on the right.
Left: frame from a clip being fact-checked, showing a building on the left at 0:05 which matches the one from the Google Street View imagery.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, rates the claim as false.
Virality
The Facebook post garnered 5,600 views. It also appeared on Facebook at least 13 times.
On Instagram, it was shared by at least two Pakistani users and three users, who appear to be from India, the US, and Turkey.
The clip also circulated on X after the earthquake, appearing at least in 12 instances.
Conclusion: The footage is unrelated to the recent June 2026 earthquakes in Venezuela. It appeared online as early as October 2023 and shows a building demolition in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
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