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A video of water rushing down a street has been shared thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim that it shows flooding in China. The claim is false; the video shows a tsunami that hit Japan’s Miyagi prefecture in 2011. The three-minute 47-second clip was published here on Facebook on August 26, 2020. It has been viewed more than 15,000 times. (Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post) The post’s caption reads: Flood in China. The video was also shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook here and here . However, the claim is false. Reverse image and keyword searches on Google found that the footage in fact shows a tsunami that hit Japan’s Miyagi prefecture in 2011. A longer version of the video was published here on YouTube on December 18, 2011. The Japanese caption translates to English as: Ishinomaki city Tsunami TSUNAMI JAPAN 3.11/2011. The video’s English caption reads: ‘Ishinomaki-shi Tidal wave’ eastern Japan great earthquake A picture in Ishinomaki-shi, Miyagi. I suggest you be rubbed by such tidal wave, it can't be done. I take a picture from a roof of Ishinomaki gas. 2-3-48, Myojincho, Ishinomaki-shi, Miyagi. The tsunami swept through much of Japan’s northeastern shoreline after a powerful earthquake struck the seabed off Miyagi on March 11, 2011. The disaster killed almost 16,000 people with more than 2,500 still missing, AFP reported here . Below is a side-by-side screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading post (L) and the YouTube video (R): AFP also covered the 2011 devastation in Ishinomaki in a video report here . Other false claims about the video shared in the misleading posts have previously been debunked by AFP. Those claims wrongly stated that the footage showed the collapse of a hydropower dam in Laos in 2020; flooding during Typhoon Hagibis in 2019; and a tsunami in Indonesia in 2018.
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