The video was posted on Chinese social media site Sina Weibo on February 8, where it has more than 105,000 views.
"An earthquake of around 8.0 magnitude occurred near Turkey and triggered a tsunami," the simplified Chinese post reads.
"Turkey had two strong earthquakes of magnitude 7.8 in one day."
Screenshot of a post sharing the false claim, taken on February 8, 2023
The video was shared in similar posts in various languages, including Arabic, Portuguese and Ukrainian, which linked it to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6.
Malaysian news organisation Nanyang Siang Pau also featured the video in a report about the disaster.
The earthquake had killed at least 21,000 people, as of February 10, in one of the region's worst disasters for a century.
AFP found no credible news reports that the earthquake triggered a tsunami.
A reverse image search on Google found the video in a report from March 14, 2017 by South Africa's Expresso Show.
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