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tsunami

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Claim: A video shows a group of people being struck by a tsunami after an earthquake hit Japan on 1 January 2024. Fact: The clip is neither recent nor is it from Japan. It is from Indonesia and dates back to at least 2021. On 1 January 2024, X (formerly Twitter) user @ZockerfreakYT posted a […]

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Claim: A satellite video shows the destruction wrought by the November 2022 earthquake in West Java, Indonesia. Fact: The video is, in fact, from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia on 28 September 2018. On 30 November 2022, Express News posted a clip on its verified Facebook page showing what it claimed was […]

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