{"id":606656,"date":"2021-07-30T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606656"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:20:47","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-earthquake-in-alaska-in-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-earthquake-in-alaska-in-july-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Earthquake In Alaska In July 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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-an-earthquake-in-alaska-in-july-2021%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=606656&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--><p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phFYPTogether\/videos\/4314993501872368\/\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows the inside of a home during the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that happened in Alaska on July 28.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7248536\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7248536\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7248536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM-620x554-1.png\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM-620x554-1.png 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM-134x120.png 134w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM-768x686-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM-1536x1373-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM-2048x1830-1.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-4.45.14-PM.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7248536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video actually shows an earthquake in Alaska in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska\u2019s coast on Wednesday night, and was the strongest earthquake the state has experienced since 1964, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/29\/us\/alaska-earthquake-8-2\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. The earthquake was felt throughout the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, and a tsunami warning was issued for Alaska and Hawaii, but both were later cancelled, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phFYPTogether\/videos\/4314993501872368\/\">video<\/a> on Facebook claims to show footage taken inside a home as the earthquake struck, causing the house to shake. \u201cEarthquake in Alaska Peninsula magnitude 8.2 (July 29, 2021)\u201d reads the 16-second video\u2019s title. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/29\/fact-check-image-house-caught-landslide\/\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Two-Story House Caught In A Landslide?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The footage is not, however, from the recent Alaskan earthquake. An internet search of keywords turned up a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesEastonCFO\/status\/1068601606109687808\">tweet<\/a> from November 2018 showing the same 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=\"634d23200b5128373636\">[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>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/akearthquake?src=hashtag_click\">#akearthquake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Earthquake?src=hashtag_click\">#Earthquake<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"715f313219433a252424\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/a> just a little bit shaken this morning,\u201d reads the tweet\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The user clarified in the replies of the tweet that he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesEastonCFO\/status\/1068603762086883328\">owned the video<\/a>, which was later shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1174038099431890\">meteorologists<\/a> and news stations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PPBX8zqzRaU&amp;t=9799s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KTOO<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2obcml1lb3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KING 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/video\/news\/raw-home-footage-captures-powerful-anchorage-earthquake\/281-8348103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KGW 8<\/a>. The video shows a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck north of Anchorage, Alaska, on Nov. 30, 2018, according to the news reports. The earthquake caused major damage to infrastructure, but there were no fatalities, <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.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5VJ6fKsCVGs\">video<\/a> on its YouTube channel July 29 showing genuine footage from the recent earthquake in Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows the inside of a home during the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that happened in Alaska on July 28. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606656","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\/606656","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606656\/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=606656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}