{"id":1176,"date":"2020-12-03T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2022-09-14T01:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T01:59:47","slug":"scenes-from-2011-tsunami-that-hit-japan-shared-as-recent-karachi-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/scenes-from-2011-tsunami-that-hit-japan-shared-as-recent-karachi-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: 2011 Video of Tsunami in Japan Shared as Recent Karachi Floods\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Thubnail-Post-No-03-sathyajith-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Thubnail-Post-No-03-sathyajith-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Thubnail-Post-No-03-sathyajith-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Thubnail-Post-No-03-sathyajith-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Thubnail-Post-No-03-sathyajith-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Thubnail-Post-No-03-sathyajith.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A video showing massive flooding, purported to be from Karachi in Pakistan is being shared widely among social media users in Sri Lanka and abroad. However, our investigations reveal that the flooding was associated with the Tsunami that hit the shores of Japan in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Social Media Posts:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A 3 minute video was posted on a Facebook user \u0db8\u0dc4\u0db1\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0dbb \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0daf\u0db9\u0dda with a caption in Sinhalese \u201c\u0db4\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dae\u0dcf\u0db1 \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0da0\u0dca\u0da0\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda<strong>\u201d<\/strong> (Karachi in Pakistan), showing massive water bodies engulfing city streets, as seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Karachi-Floods-Fake\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/486692942?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarath.bandara.796\/videos\/10217892390961767\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/486692942\">Archived Link<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This video, uploaded on 1<sup>st<\/sup> December has been shared over thousand times now and had superimposed text \u201cKarachi Pakistan Today\u201d as seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_621361eab8d5b.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These claims originated outside Sri Lanka as seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100004355353474\/videos\/1883190771836083\/\">here<\/a> and since then they have gathered great interest among locals as you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarath.bandara.796\/videos\/10217892390961767\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/103510978217193\/videos\/213652063541865\/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCVfcKHt4Vyd8lwuSDpNLliCu7QAx3JMjMu_zSaSOECiQlsaHAzKHHLVogZq21ML6I8_CkBCoQXWxwBGHy_RpjwQzu_9PonfVKlYj8-Se4MtVTw4PYPWj6h7yOg3LdLnWmBZJJkPSpEQ3xEhH-ZGDc3mUwNRY9c9s9TKja8BpvE-FOumm_aYHykCW4n19HcBuMSR26aCJZWvQadbiUtZYCKval4520wFRrH1w2Puvki-NK475npg9tI5XrAnccrZjrOEtsM6FL34YMNlJ0subFP__9PgZwvwxjgigiK02HQ2bFh2miZRs3vh_quEHuoT9fmRx1h2kcV7JXk&amp;__tn__=-R\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, a clear giveaway is the language being spoken in the video, which resembles Japanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fact Check\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Reverse image searches of key frames extracted from the video revealed that the footage was associated with the Tsunami that hit Japan\u2019s Ishinomaki city of Miyagi prefecture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A longer version of the video is seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aAIj2fws5O4\">here<\/a> with the caption \u201cTSUNAMI JAPAN 3.11\/2011\u201d The English description of the video goes on to state that this is &#8220;Ishinomaki-shi Tidal wave&#8221; eastern Japan great earthquake A picture in Ishinomaki-shi, Miyagi..\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"\u77f3\u5dfb\u5e02\u3000\u6d25\u6ce2\u3000TSUNAMI JAPAN 3.11\/2011\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aAIj2fws5O4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon further investigations we came across FNN website which had published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/common\/311\/en\/articles\/201103110056.html\">article<\/a> captioned \u201cRemembering 3\/11\u201d dedicated to the 2011 earthquake. This article contains information regarding this natural calamity. Article goes on to state that Mr. Koichi Abe had recorded this video on 11<sup>th<\/sup> March 2011 from the rooftop of his office in Ishinomaki. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K0rWPm9f3GQ\">YouTube Video<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_621361eb0e0a1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/common\/311\/en\/articles\/201103110056.html\">Link<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/SUv6g\">Archived<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comparison of key frames of the viral video claiming to be Karachi in Pakistan and Japanese Tsunami videos on YouTube confirmed that both are from same event, as seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_621361ec19523.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also came across a number of fact checks associated with this video, which were done on false claims relating to these scenes to recent floods in China. Here is a fact check done by <a href=\"https:\/\/english.factcrescendo.com\/2020\/08\/27\/video-of-2011-tsunami-in-japan-goes-viral-as-recent-floods-in-china\/\">Factcrescendo English <\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a BBC report on Karachi floods, which devastated the city, back in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A number of old and unrelated content related to natural calamities started circulating among Sri Lankan public, after cyclone Burevi received widespread attention. <a href=\"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/2020\/12\/02\/old-sl-video-shared-as-burevi-cyclone\/\">Here<\/a> is a recent investigation we did in Sinhala about a 4-year-old video of a funnel storm being shared as a tornado situation due to cyclone Burevi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Our investigation reveals that the viral footages claiming to be a recent incident of sea waves engulfing city of Karachi in Pakistan is false. 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