Fact Check: Was Japan hit by a violent tsunami on April 22, 2020?

news and media in current times are responsible to t only show real news but also to t mislead audience and lead m astray. Social media has also become a channel through which news gets transported throughout world, but it is important to first understand wher anything is real or fake. re have been many videos circulating on internet of a 'possible' tsunami that is happening in Japan.

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Claim:

Many Facebook ps have started live videos or showed videos of a tsunami destroying buildings and taking away everything with its waves. se videos have different scenes where one can see houses floating away, flyovers breaking down, and port of city being destroyed. As se ps added feature of 'live' video, many people started sharing it on ir profiles and prayed for safety of Japanese people. 

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Rating: Fake

videos that are being shared by people on social media are that of Tsunami that happened in 2011 in Japan. se videos are being re-circulated by people on ir social media. Many comments on se videos also talk about how se videos are outdated and old.  

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videos shared online claiming to be of April 2020 is 2011 foot

Origin:

videos started making rounds after news that re is an imminent tsunami that can hit Japan.  wear reports in Japan had claimed that re was a possibility for country to experience a Tsunami at Hokkaido in rrn Japan and Iwate in rast. A Japanese news portal also talked about how authorities warned that people need to be prepared for worst-case scenario and also a mega-earthquake. 2011 Tsunami was a result of an earthquake of magnitude 9.0. It left more than 15,000 dead. 2011 tsunami was focused on Japan Trench. Since 2020 warning is of same place, people used this to spread wrong information. re has been tsunami news in Japan. It is also important to te that something as disastrous as an earthquake in Japan would have been covered by news portals. 

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Google Trends Analysis

People have been looking for news of tsunami on internet as well. search saw a peak on April 22 at 9.30 PM in India. It is important to te that at 9.30 PM IST is 1 AM in morning in Japan. videos do t show snippets from late night. 

Source: Google Trends