Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: check 8 photos and videos

A mass of images and videos from the scene of earthquakes on February 6, 2023 in Turkey and Syria spread on the Internet. We checked the reliability of several such pictures and rollers.

Two earthquakes with magnitude 7.8 and 7.7 happened in the southeast of Turkey on the morning of February 6, and over the next week were registered Thousands of Afterchoks (repeated seismic shocks of lower intensity). An earthquake that most strongly affected Turkey and Syria, also It was felt In Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and in Cyprus. By data The UN on February 15, more than 41,000 people (approximately 35,000 in Turkey and 6,000 in Syria) became victims of the earthquake in two countries, but these figures, apparently, are far from the final ones. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing, and even more than a week after the disaster, rescuers are still Hear Voices from under the rubble. Tens of thousands of people Counted missing. In Turkey, almost 100,000 Turkish and 5,000 foreign rescuers work in the tragedy area in ten provinces, and 45 countries and international organizations Offered Turkey its help. In Syria situation It is more complicated because of the continuing civil war: on the day of publication of only 14 UN trucks with humanitarian aid Crossed The Turkish-Syrian border in order to deliver food and first necessities to the north of the country. Even though the USA suspended the action of sanctions against Syria to provide humanitarian assistance, Syrian rescuers anyway Not enough resources and heavy equipment to extract people from the rubble. The news about the tragedy in Turkey and Syria flew over the world media in a few hours, and soon fake and misleading photographs and videos began to spread in social networks.

February 6 users Twitter And Telegram They shared a video in which the tsunami caused by underground shocks is allegedly falling into Turkey. We spent Reverse search By stop-frame from the video and found that in fact the video was shot on March 12, 2017, when in the South African city of Durban flooded One of the beaches.

Tiktok users distributed video The flashes of light in the night sky, which supposedly could be observed in Turkey before the earthquake. The same video was published on her website, the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Truth". In fact, it was Filmed November 23, 2022 shortly before another Earthquakes In the northwest of Turkey. Some scientists They thinkthat such light outbreaks are electric charges released from the crystals of some rocks during seismic activity. According to the other versions, the glow is explained by the so -called Piezoelectric effect, in which quartz -containing rocks create a strong electric field with a certain type of compression. In any case, the video has nothing to do with the events of the beginning of February.

For some estimates, due to an earthquake in Turkey and Syria, more than 6,000 buildings collapsed. Nevertheless, not all personnel of destroyed houses published in social networks are related to the earthquake. For example, this is a TIKTOK-video crumbling buildings with the signature "Now in Turkey" - in fact, a cut from several video recordings demolition of buildings in China in 2021.

Another diverged in VKontakte widely video Allegedly, the collapse of a multi -storey building in Turkey. In fact video clip It was shot in 2021 in Florida.

A video of another crumbling building was published on VKontakte in a public Avia.pro And even hit the reports Some foreign media about the recent earthquake. In fact, this building It was in the city of Jidd in Saudi Arabia. The reason for its destruction is not clear for certain; Maybeit was planned demolition.

Another video From VKontakte it was not removed in Turkey, as the signature claims, but in Japan In 2016. Then, due to a strong wind from a 9-story building, construction forests collapsed.

Several viral photographs, which allegedly captured the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, were also false. For example, a photo of a dog next to his owner, stuck under the wreckage, which spread in Telegram, Tiktok And "VKontakte", Was downloaded to the photo bank SHUTTERSTOCK at least three years ago.

Some Russian -speaking publications They wrotethat before the earthquake in Syria, hundreds of cats ran out into the street and “tried to leave the city”, citing a video as evidence. And although behavior is unusual animals really Sometimes they can serve as harbingers of earthquakes, this video was actually shot in Saudi Arabia in 2022: cats did not “try to leave the city” and did not “behave strangely”, but only went out to meet the passerby who came to feed them.

Thus, many viral photographs and videos, allegedly taken at the site of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, are actually not related to disaster on February 6, 2023. Either in ignorance, or consciously, in pursuit of “likes”, users share impressive personnel from other countries of the world, pretending them for recent shootings from Turkey and Syria. Most often, it is possible to identify false information using a reverse search by image, which helps to determine the original date or place of shooting.

Photo on the cover: Telegram

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3. BBC. "No tents, no help": Why do the Syrians believe that after the earthquake they threw them to their fate
4. BBC. TOAM Earthquake has changed the appearance of the cities of Turkey and Syria