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These photos circulated in reports before the Tonga volcano eruption

Published on October 23, 2025 at 21:39

These images circulated before the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami

Published on October 23, 2025 at 21:22

This video shows large waves hitting a building in the Canary Islands, not Tonga

Published on January 25, 2022 at 05:07

Digital animation falsely shared as 'actual video of Tonga volcano eruption'

Published on January 21, 2022 at 04:33

This video is a simulation of a volcanic eruption -- it was not filmed in Tonga

Published on January 20, 2022 at 15:19

Video has circulated in reports since 2019 about Italian volcano eruption — not Tonga eruption

Published on January 18, 2022 at 10:46

This footage does not show a 'tsunami hitting Australia'

Published on January 7, 2022 at 10:17

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

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