2020 İzmir Earthquake Video Resurfaces After Recent Earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Misbar investigated the viral video and found the claim to be misleading.

After conducting a thorough reverse image search, Misbar’s team found the video making the rounds to be outdated.

Footage from the 2020 İzmir Earthquake Resurfaced

Contrary to the viral claim, the video clip dates back to October 31, 2020, when an earthquake struck İzmir, Turkey.

Mehr News Agency published the video at the time.

The same video was also posted by a Twitter user in a Twitter thread about the then-İzmir earthquake.

Santiago Ravidlas posted the video on October 31, 2020.

2020 İzmir Earthquake

According to ReliefWeb, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck Turkey's western region of İzmir on October 30, 2020.

The Bornova and Bayrakl regions of the city have suffered substantial structural and infrastructure damage as a result of the earthquake.

There have been reports of at least 17 buildings collapsing and numerous others being damaged.

According to the Turkish Interior Ministry, the earthquake claimed 21 lives and injured 799 people.

2023 Turkey Earthquake

A major earthquake that occurred in Turkey's southeast, near the Syrian border, claimed the lives of over 2,300 people from both Turkey and Syria, according to the BBC.

The disaster agency estimates that more than 1,500 people died in Turkey, while 810 people are reported to have died in Syria.

As rescuers sift through mounds of debris in the very cold and icy circumstances, they are still likely to discover additional dead.

Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the President of Turkey, said the earthquake was the country's biggest disaster in decades.

A second "independent" 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey's Elbistan area of the Kahramanmaras province twelve hours later.

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