{"id":303739,"date":"2025-07-30T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303739\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:06:10","slug":"bbc-verify-live-how-were-verifying-earthquake-video-and-analysing-gaza-aid-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303739\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: How we\u2019re verifying earthquake video and analysing Gaza aid situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video of beluga whales on Kamchatka beach unrelated to earthquakepublished at 11:18 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

11:18 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Shayan Sardarizadeh<\/strong>
BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n

A video of five beluga whales stranded on the shore of Kamchatka – in Russia’s Far East – is being widely circulated online, with false claims that it was nature\u2019s warning ahead of the massive earthquake.<\/p>\n

However, the video is from two years ago and it is not linked to today\u2019s earthquake and tsunami. <\/p>\n

\"AImage source, X<\/p>\n

In the clip, which has been viewed millions of times today, a Russian man films five beluga whales on the coast, while another man attends to them.<\/p>\n

An account on X which posts videos about nature shared the video yesterday, saying: \u201cA strong tide stranded five beluga whales on the shore of Kamchatka, Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many users shared the video following the earthquake, claiming it was a warning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe animals warned us and we didn\u2019t listen,\u201d claimed one user in a viral post.<\/p>\n

But by taking screengrabs of the video and reverse searching them, we can establish that the video was first shared on YouTube in August 2023, external<\/a> by a local news outlet in Kamchatka, and is therefore not related to today\u2019s earthquake and subsequent tsunami. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video of beluga whales on Kamchatka beach unrelated to earthquakepublished at 11:18 British Summer Time 11:18 BST Shayan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-303739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114941865922719985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}