On February 6, 2023, strong tremors were felt on the border of Turkey and Syria. According to media reports, the intensity of the earthquake has been measured at 7.5. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that 1,121 people have died in Turkey alone. Relief and rescue operations are underway, casualties are likely to rise.
There is a discussion about it on social media. Users are sharing different videos and photos in the context of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
News channel Aaj Tak anchor Sudhir Chaudhary tweeted a video and captioned: “ A lesson for those who live in high-rise buildings. What happens to buildings in strong earthquakes? This video is about the recent earthquake in Syria.” ( English Translation)
Source: Twitter
Fact Check:
To know the reality of the viral video, the DFRAC team first converted it into a keyframe and performed a reverse image search on the Internet. We found similar videos on the websites of CBS News and Sky News.
Source: cbsnews
Cbs News quoted Reuters as saying that the video is from a building collapsing due to the earthquake in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province.
Sky News captioned the video as” Turkish earthquake: Building collapses after the earthquake in Sanliurfa”
Source: news.sky
Many users have also posted a video describing Sanliurfa
Source: Twitter.
Source: Twitter
Conclusion:
It is clear from media reports and DFRAC fact-check that the viral video is not from Syria, but from a building collapsing due to an earthquake in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, so this claim of aaj tak anchor Sudhir Chaudhary is misleading.
