Viral Video of Earthquake in Japan is not Recent; here is the truth …

A viral video is being shared widely on social media platforms claimed to be of the earthquake that hit Japan recently. 

However, the video is not of the recent earthquake that struck off the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. 

Viral Video

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The tweet above shows us a video of a building experiencing tremor. The caption of the tweet is as follows: “Oh My God… What is happening to the World 😔?

Hope all is well in 🙏🙏#Japan #earthquake #JapanEarthquake”

The video has been viewed 21.9K times on Twitter. A strong earthquake hit the Japanese island of Hokkaido in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night. The magnitude of the earthquake was reported to be 6.2 on Richter scale. 

However, this video is not related to this earthquake. Let us find out what the truth.

Fact Check

We did a keyword search on Google using keywords relevant from the viral video and found the video on YouTube.  The video is available on this YouTube channel since last 3 years.

The above video is posted by Japanese media organization ANN news. The description of the video says this incident happened during the major earthquake that devastated Japan in 2011. The title also indicates that this footage is from Sendai airport in Meyagi Japan. 

The video was published on 17 Jan 2020 on the ANN news’ YouTube channel. Hence, we can ascertain that the video is not of the recent earthquake that hit Hokkaido last Saturday.

Conclusion

The viral video claimed to be of recent earthquake that hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido last Saturday is actually old. Our fact check shows that the video is available on the YouTube since 2020.