“Video of Semeru Mountain volcanic eruption in Indonesia”
What FACTLY found
The video is not from Semeru Mountain eruption in Indonesia. The video is an altered compilation of images from a 2015 volcanic eruption in Chile and a waterfall in Indonesia. The upper part (image) of the video with the smoke is Calbuco volcanic eruption that happened in 2015 in Chile, where an ash cloud rose at least 15 kilometres (50,000 feet) above the volcano. The lower part (image) shows the Tumpak Sewu waterfall in Indonesia. On 04 December 2021, Semeru Mountain on the Java Island in I...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 7 December 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 9 December 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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