The video shows an incident on a different bridge in the Chinese city of Humen
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- Published on May 14, 2020 at 07:30
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- By AFP Indonesia
The video has been shared more than 1,000 times after it was posted on Facebook on May 7, 2020.
The 14-second video shows the surface of a bridge appearing to ripple like waves.
The post’s Javanese-language caption translates to English as: “Sister, is this true? it is said that this is the Macau-Hongkong bridge. It is on TV this morning...the bridge looks like it is breathing.”
The video was also shared on Facebook alongside a similar claim in Javanese here and here; and here in Indonesian.
The claim is false; the video shows a bridge in the Chinese city of Humen in Guangdong province.
A Google reverse image search for a screenshot of the video found a longer version of the clip was embedded in this report published by Hong Kong newspaper The Standard on May 5, 2020.
Below is a screenshot of the The Standard’s report:
The report’s headline reads: “Rippling Bridge”.
The report reads in part: “People were getting the shakes along a stretch of the Pearl River yesterday.
“That came as Guangzhou authorities suspended traffic on the 3,618-meter Humen Pearl River Bridge, which connects the Nansha district and Humen town in Dongguan city. For it shook so much it set off ripples along the river. Some bridge-crossers said it felt like they were on a small boat. Such reports alarmed the city's transport department to the extent that the bridge was closed at 3.32pm.”
The 43-second video was posted on YouTube on May 5, 2020. The video's simplified Chinese-language title translates to English as: “Humen bridge”.
Below is a screenshot comparison between the clip in the misleading post (L) and the YouTube video (R):
Nansha district is located in Guangzhou, a city in Guangdong province, China.
The bridge can be seen in this image tagged to Google Maps.
The same incident was also covered by China’s state-run broadcaster China Global Television Network (CGTN) here and Hong Kong-based news outlet the South China Morning Post here.
This is the location of the Humen Pearl River Bridge on Google Maps.
Another bridge, the 55-km-long Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, connects Hong Kong and Macau.
This is the location of the bridge at one end in Hong Kong on Google Maps.
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