{"id":39086,"date":"2019-06-21T19:04:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=39086"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:13:50","slug":"2017-video-simulation-shared-as-2019-mount-sinabung-volcanic-eruption-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/2017-video-simulation-shared-as-2019-mount-sinabung-volcanic-eruption-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 video simulation shared as 2019 Mount Sinabung volcanic eruption in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 9, 2019, Mount Sinabung<\/a> in North Sumatra, Indonesia, erupted and sent a huge plume of thick ash into the sky. A video floating across social media platforms is being shared with the claim that it depicts the volcanic eruption.<\/p>\n

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The video has been viral since 2019. Among those who circulated it was the chairman of RPG Group Harsh Goenka.<\/p>\n

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Mount Sinabung on Indonesia’s Sumatra island recently erupted, sending a massive column of ash and smoke into the air and coating local villages in debris.
\nWatch even after the screen becomes totally black .#wrathofnature<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/zlWL7gKmiG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) June 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several others shared the video that shows a massive plume of ash in the middle of water slowly engulfing the nearby areas.<\/p>\n

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Sinabung volcano Sumatra Indonesia \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\udde9 on sunday the 9th June 2019 at 04:28. Watch till the end. \ud83d\udc47 pic.twitter.com\/SvHv2MfULd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Trooper (@pnkjshm) June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video was viral<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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Breaking down the video into multiple frames using InVID and subsequently reverse-searching individual images on Google, led us to an October 2017 report in UK-based media outlet Express<\/a>.\u00a0The report carried the same video currently viral.<\/p>\n

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According to\u00a0Express, the volcanic eruption was a video simulation – “An Australian geologist who was researching the risk of super-volcanoes in New Zealand had a team of producers create a video simulation of a huge volcanic eruption beneath the surface off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, to show just how devastating they can be.”<\/p>\n

Local news organisation\u00a0NZ Herald <\/a>also reported on the research project.<\/p>\n

Mount Sinabung eruption<\/h4>\n

Videos of the volcanic eruption in Mount Sinabung look contrastingly different from the imagery in the viral video, thus further proving that the clip shared on social media had nothing to do with the June 9 eruption.<\/p>\n