A home security camera video showing a father trying to rush out of the house with his children during an earthquake in Alaska in November 2018 has been miscaptioned online as a scene from a July 2023 earthquake centered in southeastern Alaska.
Jesse Elmore of Anchorage, Alaska, the father seen in the video, confirmed to Reuters that the clip from his in-home security camera shows him responding during an earthquake centered in Anchorage on Nov. 30, 2018.
Posts sharing the video as more recent make reference to a July 16, 2023 earthquake focused on the Alaska Peninsula, an area that separates the Gulf of Alaska from the Bering Sea (here).
The caption states that the video shows a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that occurred on Nov. 30, 2018, and was filmed in Anchorage, Alaska (here), archived (here).
Home security camera video dating to November 2018 does not show a scene during a 2023 Alaska earthquake.
Persons:
Jesse Elmore, Elmore, Read
Organizations:
Reuters, United States Geological Survey
Locations:
Alaska, Anchorage , Alaska, Anchorage