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This video shows the 2011 Japan tsunami, not the Three Gorges Dam in China

Published on August 24, 2021 at 08:48

Photo shows forecast of tsunami path in Japan after 2011 earthquake

Published on April 19, 2021 at 10:53

This footage shows a tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, not a flood in Pakistan in 2020

Published on December 8, 2020 at 02:39

These were Thai victims of the 2004 tsunami and not people killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict

Published on November 26, 2020 at 12:34

This video shows a tsunami in Japan in 2011

Published on September 24, 2020 at 11:27

This video shows a tsunami crashing into a city in Japan in 2011

Published on September 2, 2020 at 07:19

This photo actually shows victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand

Published on April 17, 2020 at 10:39

The Philippines did not issue its highest alert for the Taal volcano – and this photo does not show an imminent tsunami threat

Published on January 17, 2020 at 08:07

This image shows where debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami could disperse -- it has nothing to do with radiation

Published on November 18, 2019 at 04:49

This video shows Japan during a tsunami in 2011, not Typhoon Hagibis in 2019

Published on October 23, 2019 at 09:23

No, this is not a genuine tsunami warning issued for the Philippines in April 2019

Published on May 7, 2019 at 06:06

No, this is not a real photo of a 'tsunami' of supporters for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Published on April 11, 2019 at 07:59

This video of washed up bodies dates to 2014 in Libya and not the recent cyclone in Mozambique or last year's tsunami in Palu

Published on April 5, 2019 at 10:38

This video was taken after the 2011 tsunami in Japan, not the cyclone in Mozambique

Published on March 26, 2019 at 11:52

No, this is not a photo of Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto visiting a tsunami-hit town

Published on January 7, 2019 at 03:16

No, this video does not show Mount Soputan on Indonesia’s disaster-hit Sulawesi Island erupting

Published on October 11, 2018 at 10:27

No, this video does not show the tsunami in Indonesia

Published on October 10, 2018 at 10:18

No, these are not victims of the quake-tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island

Published on October 4, 2018 at 13:49
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