Old visual of dog sensing tremor passed off as earthquake in Delhi-NCR

HYDERABAD: A visual of a dog waking up after sensing an earthquake is circulating on social media.

In the viral video, you can see a dog startled in sleep. He woke up and acted weird as if he felt something strange.

A media organization Jantantra TV News has shared the video.

The same video has also been used for another earthquake that happened in Nepal on 9th Nov 2022.

As per a report in The Indian Express, an earthquake struck Delhi for the second time this week. Delhi-NCR felt tremors. The epicenter of the earthquake was Nepal.

'On Saturday, an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale hit Nepal around 7.57 pm, at a depth of around 10 km, and 212 km southeast of Joshimath in Uttarakhand, according to the National Centre for Seismology. Tremors were also felt in parts of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Nepal, the epicenter of the quake was in Bajhang', the report added.

Does the viral video have any link with the recent tremors felt?

Keep scrolling to know the truth.

Fact Check

NewsMeter performed a reverse image search to find the origin of the video. The search led us to the same video on a YouTube channel J&K TV published on 21st January 2021. The video was titled '1.20.2021 Magnitude 7.1 Davao earthquake'.

Taking a hint from the title, we assumed the location to be Davao Del Sur, which is in the Philippines.

For further confirmation, we ran a keyword search to find media reports on the incident. We found a media report by Rappler. It said: "A magnitude 7.1 earthquake was detected at sea off Davao Occidental on Thursday, January 21, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs)."

The earthquake that struck at 8:23 pm was located 231 kilometers southeast of Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental.

It is evident that the visuals hail from 2021 Philippines and not a recent one.

Hence, the claim is false.