{"id":1121364,"date":"2021-12-15T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121364"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:58:41","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-the-recent-earthquake-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-the-recent-earthquake-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show The Recent Earthquake In Indonesia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-the-recent-earthquake-in-indonesia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A viral video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1042176796570905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows the inside of a home during the recent earthquake in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video shows an earthquake in Alaska in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey on Tuesday reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000gc2a\/origin\/detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magnitude 7.3 earthquake<\/a> striking underwater near Flores Island in Indonesia. A tsunami alert for the area was issued and later lifted by authorities, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-indonesia-earthquakes-tsunamis-354abe8a741277a64448bd4e59cd524c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One video allegedly showing the inside of a house being violently shaken by the recent Indonesian earthquake has garnered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1042176796570905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 61,000 views<\/a> since being posted yesterday. A reverse image search of key frames from the footage, however, revealed it is unrelated to Tuesday\u2019s&nbsp;earthquake in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesEastonCFO\/status\/1068601606109687808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same footage<\/a> was posted by a man named James Easton in late November 2018 on Twitter, where he indicated it showed an earthquake in Alaska. In the tweet\u2019s comments, as various news outlets asked to use his footage, Easton confirmed he took the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.3067484662577\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/akearthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#akearthquake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Earthquake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"1c325c5f742e57484949\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/a> just a little bit shaken this morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IdVpcqdVI1\">pic.twitter.com\/IdVpcqdVI1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Easton (@JamesEastonCFO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesEastonCFO\/status\/1068601606109687808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>News outlets such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2obcml1lb3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KING 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PPBX8zqzRaU&amp;t=9799s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KTOO<\/a> shared Easton\u2019s footage on their YouTube channels on Nov. 30, 2018. According to the titles of those videos, it depicts a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/featured-story\/2018-anchorage-earthquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7.0 magnitude earthquake<\/a> that struck north of Anchorage, Alaska, on that day.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Alaskan earthquake was felt up to 400 miles away from where it occurred, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/us\/2018\/11\/30\/alaska-earthquake-damage-todd-dnt-tsr-vpx.cnn\/video\/playlists\/alaska-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. It caused significant infrastructure damage, including to buildings, roads and power lines, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/earthquake-hits-alaska-triggering-tsunami-warning-n942256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a> reported at the time. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/05\/fact-check-video-flooding-china-three-gorges-dam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, This Video Does Not Show Flooding From China\u2019s Three Gorges Dam)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Indonesia\u2019s Mount Semeru erupted, causing damage to nearby villages and killing dozens of people, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/149198\/a-deadly-day-on-mount-semeru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>. That natural disaster also sparked a <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/12\/13\/fact-check-video-semeru-volcano-erupting-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">false claim<\/a> that Check Your Fact debunked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral video shared on Facebook purportedly shows the inside of a home during the recent earthquake in Indonesia.Verdict: False The video shows an earthquake in Alaska in 2018. Fact &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}