Falsely publish old photos as the aftermath of the June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake

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Four photos showing injured children, destroyed buildings and rubble were posted on social media purporting to show the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that struck Afghanistan in June 2022. However, the photos were all taken before the disaster elsewhere, in Pakistan and Italy.

“An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hits Afghanistan, more than 1,000 people died,” said an Indonesian-language Facebook post on June 23 that was shared more than 50 times.

Pictures published by local Afghan media showed houses under the rubble and the bodies of the victims lying on the ground.

Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, taken June 28, 2022

This post was published days after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan’s remote eastern border region on June 22, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more.

Photos with similar claims have also been shared on Facebook posts here, here, and here.

However, the claim is false. These images were circulating on the Internet years before the earthquake in Afghanistan.

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Reverse image search and keyword searches on Google found that the first three images were taken after a powerful earthquake struck and killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan in October 2015.

The epicenter of the October 26, 2015 earthquake was in the remote Afghan province of Badakhshan, AFP reported.

The first photo was published by Reuters news agency on October 26, 2015.

The caption for the photo reads: “A man holds a baby injured in an earthquake, at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, October 26, 2015.

A powerful earthquake struck a remote region of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul, with shocks felt in northern India and in the Pakistani capital, where hundreds of people ran out of buildings as the ground rolled beneath them.

Screenshot from the first photo on Reuters Pictures

The second image was posted to Associated Press (AP) Images here on October 26, 2015.

Photo caption text: “People injured in an earthquake receive treatment outside Ayub Medical Hospital in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday, October 26, 2015.

“One of the most isolated and impoverished regions of Afghanistan was hit by a massive earthquake on Monday that shook all of Asia, shaking buildings from Kabul to New Delhi, cutting off electricity and communications, and killing nearly 200 people, mostly in remote mountainous areas near the Afghan-Pakistan border.”

Screenshot from the second photo on AP Images

The third photo was published by Reuters here on October 26, 2015.

Photo caption text in part: “Residents walk near the ruins of a house after it was destroyed by an earthquake in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan, October 26, 2015.”

Screenshot from the third photo on Reuters Pictures

Here are screenshot comparisons of the first three images in the misleading post (left) and the real images published by Reuters and AP (right):

Screenshot comparisons of the first three images in the misleading post (left) and real images published by Reuters and AP (right) the 2009 Italian earthquake

Reverse image search and keyword searches found the fourth image posted here on the financial image site Pixabay.

The photo, which was published on Pixabay on September 13, 2016, was attributed to an Italian photographer named Angelo Giordano.

Giordano said he took the photo on April 14, 2009.

“The photo was taken in the village of Una in the province of L’Aquila in Italy, a few days after the earthquake that struck the region on April 6, 2009,” he told AFP.

The 6.3-magnitude earthquake of L’Aquila on April 6, 2009 killed more than 300 people and injured 1,600 others, AFP reported at the time.

Here is a screenshot comparison of the fourth image in the misleading post (left) and the original image on Pixabay (right):

Screenshot comparison of the fourth image in the misleading post (left) and the original image on Pixabay (right)

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