At the end of July 2025, after a large earthquake in the Far East, a viral video was shown, which shows whales thrown ashore. We checked the reliability of such publications.
The video shows the beluga stuck at the edges of the water and people who water them with sea water. A voice behind the frame (apparently, this is a person who shoots the video) says: “Belukh was thrown ashore. We came to help with what we can. Heavy ... a whole family. " It is claimed that the video was recently shot in Kamchatka. He was published with similar signatures by Telegram channels "KB"(238,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"News"(45 000), Full-Time Trading (40,000), "Media Hall"(39,000) and others. In YouTube, the video posted the TV channel"Moscow 24", It is also wide Distant V Instagram.
On July 30, an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 has occurred in Kamchatka - the strongest over the past 70 years. After that, in Japan, the USA and some other countries were announced Tsunami threat. More than 2 million people were evacuated, but an earthquake and tsunami Not brought special destruction and no one died.
With the help of a reverse search for the images, it was “verified” that the video with the whites will circulate on social networks for several years. The earliest publication that we managed to find was dated August 13, 2023, when the video was posted on the regional news site "Kamchatka-inform". The article said that because of the strong tide, five Beluh (including one cub) stuck on the west bank of the peninsula at the mouth of the Tigil River. Local fishermen came to their aid, who for several hours watered animals with sea water and fed fish. Then the tide began, and the Belukhi were able to sail into the Sea of Okhotsk.
On the day of earthquake in Kamchatka, the Japanese press I wrotethat on the eve of July 29, four whales carried out to the coast in Chib Prefecture. Experts note that the cases when whales were thrown ashore on the eve of large earthquakes were recorded earlier (for example, in 2011 in New Zealand), however, a reliable connection between seismic activity and unusual behavior of marine mammals has not yet been established.
The whales were not reported directly before or immediately after the recent earthquake in Kamchatka in Kamchatka.
Thus, the authors of the viral video captured the real scene of the salvation of Beluh stuck on the shore, but it has nothing to do with the earthquake in Kamchatka in July 2025. The video was shot two years earlier, when several marine mammals were on the shore because of a strong tide.
Photo on the cover: a screenshot of a viral video
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