Video of Cyclone Fani going viral as Cyclone Amphan.
Super cyclone Amphan has hit West Bengal and caused great damage to lives, infrastructure, crops and basic necessities. A number of videos of the cyclone striking the state has been shared by many of various social media platforms.
Claim: A video depicting powerful winds hitting a parking lot and and causing damage has been going viral with the claim that it is a site from Digha, West Bengal before super cyclone Amphan caused a landfall.
The video has been shared by multiple accounts on Facebook.
The claim was also viral on Twitter. Nistula Hebbar, an Indian journalist also tweeted the same.
#CycloneAmphan hitting Kolkata. Video via a friend living there. Prayers for the safety of all. pic.twitter.com/aEQHUSZgbQ
— Nistula Hebbar (@nistula) May 20, 2020
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Video from Digha and Kolkata ( West Bengal) #Pray for the safety and well being of all those living in the costal areas of #Odisha and #Bengal .
Cyclone nearing landfall..very heavy rains lashing Kolkata now #kolkata #digha #amphan pic.twitter.com/BD5MLXlvS3
— Rajat Raj Gupta 🇮🇳 Bhaiya Ham Kanpuriya Hain (@RajatRajGupta8) May 20, 2020
Video from Digha before landfall of #AmphanSuperCyclone @ExSecular pic.twitter.com/gcw1J84IgR
— Subhajit D (@subhajitd02) May 20, 2020
The viral video was also doing rounds with the same claim on WhatsApp.
Truth
The viral video is not of super cyclone Amphan hitting West Bengal. The video is of cyclone Fani that hit Odisha an year ago. The truth was found by a simple key frame. reverse image and key word search. The video was featured by Economic Times while covering Cyclone Fani. Cyclone Fani was a very strong tropical cyclone that hit the state of Odisha, India in 2019. It caused great damage and killed around 64 people in Odisha.
Every time a natural disaster occurs, social media buzzes with unrelated videos of older incidents. This is one of the many examples of the same.
Attached below is the visual featured in The Economic Times’ website.
Source: The Economic Times
The viral video can be seen in the first 23 seconds of this video shared on The Economic Times’ YouTube page.
Source: The Economic TimesÂ
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