Does a TikTok video show the 2024 New Year's Day earthquake in Japan? No, that's not true: it shows a storm in Sochi, Russia, and an earthquake in the Philippines.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok by @ruddl456 on January 2, 2024. It opened, translated from Korean by Lead Stories Staff:
2024. 1. 1. Japan Earthquake
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Mon Jan 15 03:32:57 2024 UTC)
The author added the fake caption on the original video (archived here) uploaded on TikTok, on December 3, 2023, about a month before the Noto earthquake in Japan happened. The original TikTok video's title said, translated from Thai by Lead Stories Staff:
Japan gave Tsunami warning, following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines.
The video consists of eight different footage. The first part of the video (from 00:00 to 00:17) shows a storm in Sochi, Russia, not Japan (archived here). From the second part to the end (starting at 00:18), the in-video text "Earthquake Philippines 7.6" confirms that the videos show an earthquake that happened in Mindanao, Philippines, in 2023. Most of the footages were shared on the Internet from November 2023 to December 2023. (archived here, here, here, here and here) This confirms that none of the footage shared on the TikTok videos shows the Noto earthquake and tsunami, the natural disaster that happened in Japan on January 1, 2024 (archived here).
