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The footage of the building collapse is not from the earthquake in Turkey, but from a 2016 earthquake in Japan.

FATBARDH DEMA

The online media "Telegrafi.com" and "Euronews Albania" published an article yesterday with footage of a building with a part of it detached and falling onto the street, claiming that this building is in Turkey and that the footage is from the earthquake that hit this country on the morning of February 6.

After verifying the facts, based on research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info has managed to confirm that this building is not in Turkey, therefore the images are not from the earthquake that struck this country on the morning of February 6th.

Based on the findings from the research conducted, hibrid.info has confirmed that this building is in Japan and the video material was taken during the earthquake that occurred in April 2016.


Link to the article published in the online media "Telegrafi.com" and "Euronews Albania":

https://telegrafi.com/nje-pjese-gjigante-e-nderteses-shkeputet-dhe-bie-ne-rruge-per-fat-te-mire-nuk-kishte-kalimtar-rasti-ne-ato-momente/

https://euronews.al/video-momenti-kur-ndertesa-shumekateshe-ndahet-ne-mes-dhe-bie-ne-rruge-ne-turqi/


In addition to these online media, this article was later published by several Albanian-language portals such as "File.al”And“Gazetatema.net".


These online media outlets based this article on an amateur video shared on Twitter, which has since apparently been deleted from this social media outlet. (see here)


After research conducted through the automated online program “InVID”, hibrid.info has managed to find the article published on the Japanese-language website “blog.goo.ne.jp”, which clarifies that the images of this building are from April 2016. (see here)



Analyze:

Several Albanian-language online media outlets have published an article with footage of a building, part of which is torn off during the earthquake.

The aforementioned media outlets have claimed (based on a video on Twitter) that the footage is from the February 6 earthquake in Turkey.

However, after verifying the facts, hibrid.info has confirmed that the footage is from the 2016 earthquake in Japan.

Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info rates this article as "Unverified Content".


Reasoning:

The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.

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