2023-09-23 06:35:43
An earthquake in Egypt.. What is the truth regarding the video?
On Wednesday morning, September 20, an earthquake measuring 4.5 degrees occurred near the city of Marsa Matrouh, located on the western coast of northern Egypt.
Hours later, a video appeared on social media sites that was said to show the moment of the earthquake and depict the state of panic among the city’s residents.
It seems the video It is as if it was photographed in the early morning hours, with only a few pedestrians on the street.
Screaming sounds are heard from afar, and the people shown in the video are seen running.
The accompanying comments stated that the video shows the moments of the “earthquake that struck Marsa Matruh.”
Screen capture on September 22, 2023 from Facebook
Hours before these posts appeared, I signed Earthquake With a magnitude of 4.5, more than 200 kilometers from the city of Marsa Matrouh, according to what the Egyptian authorities responsible for monitoring earthquakes said.
These natural phenomena have aroused growing interest since the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and northern Syria last February, leading to the earthquake in Morocco and the floods in eastern Libya in recent days.
In this context, this video appeared, which was said to depict a state of panic among the residents of Marsa Matrouh during the earthquake.
Suspicious elements
But a number of elements appearing in the video made journalists from the Agence France-Presse fact-checking service doubt the veracity of what was said regarding him.
The people appearing in the video are wearing winter clothes, which raises suspicion that he is currently being filmed.
On the other hand, the National Seismic Network said that the earthquake occurred at 4:30 in the morning, but the video appears to have been filmed during the day or at least in the early morning hours, and not at dawn.
Video truth
Searching for still scenes from the video on search engines only led to similar videos on TikTok, which did not contain any useful explanation.
However, following specifying some areas of research, it helped to investigate the source of the clip. The presence of cars with yellow plates suggests the possibility that the video was filmed in the city of Port Said, where cars with yellow plates (leaving from the free zone) are abundant.
On the other hand, one of the videos bears the date 10/1/2023 in very small font at the bottom.
With this date specified and assuming that the place was the city of Port Said, a search on the Crowd Tangle website for the word “Port Said” led to news in local media organizations regarding the arrest of the security authorities. Egyptian He is wanted and described as dangerous.
Indeed, it was possible to search according to these new data (Port Said – arrest – arrest – criminal + specific date) to the same video, but in a longer version, published in the media last January.
The longer version shows an armed man in the street, and the panic he causes.
On that day, the security services in Port Said arrested a “highly dangerous” man wanted in a “criminal case” who opened fire randomly, wounding two people, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Interior at the time.
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