🇵🇭 After a series of earthquakes hit Taiwan's southeast in September 2022, social media users in the Philippines linked photos of toppled buildings to the disaster However, the images were taken during previous earthquakes in 1999, 2016 and 2018
between the 921 earthquake photo shared in the misleading post and the image published by Taipei Times :ahead of the anniversary of the 921 earthquake, on September 19, 2021.
The report about the reconstruction of buildings in New Taipei City damaged during the quake also notes the collapse of the Doctors' Home complex had caused structural damage to surrounding premises.Its original caption states:"Rescue personnel search for survivors at the site of a collapsed building on February 6, 2016 in Tainan, Taiwan.
"A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit southern Taiwan early Saturday, toppling several buildings and killing at least two people in Tainan, according to local news reports."between the Tainan earthquake photo shared in the misleading post and the original image :Its caption reads:"Rescue and emergency workers block off a street where a building came off its foundation, the morning after a 6.4 magnitude quake hit the eastern Taiwanese city of Hualien, on February 7, 2018.
"Rescue workers scrambled to search for survivors in buildings left tilting precariously on their foundations in the Taiwanese city of Hualien on February 7, after an overnight earthquake killed four and injured more than 200."between the Hualien quake photo shared in the misleading post and the original image :
A different photo of the same tower block in Hualien has also been falsely shared following the September 2022 quakes, debunked by AFP
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