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Thursday, August 6, 2026

Claims of ‘man-made earthquake’ take over Japanese internet after Kumamoto disaster kills 38 - independent.co.uk

Social media posts claim tremor came from an explosion or deny that it happened at all

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False claims about the earthquake that killed 38 people in Japan have spread on social media, from denials that the tremor occurred at all to fabricated images of the wreckage.

The magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit the southern island of Kyushu in Kumamoto prefecture on 28 July, collapsing a part of a shopping centre in Kashima when thousands of people were inside and prompting the evacuation of nearly 300,000 residents. The...



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