Over 678 houses have reportedly developed cracks in the sinking town of Joshimath, Uttarakhand. The town is ‘sinking’ for some time now and the overall situation has reached a crisis this year as buildings and roads developed massive cracks. Local residents are blaming the Tapovan project of the NTPC for aggravating the situation.
Against this backdrop, a viral picture showing aerial view of a massive land with cracks and fissures is doing the rounds on social media. Users have shared the image claiming it to be from Joshimath.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral picture, and found it to be false.
Running a Reverse Image Search, we identified a YouTube video on a channel named ‘Most Dangerous’, dated August 8, 2022 and titled: 5 Biggest Landslides in All History.
The image at 3:24 matches exactly with the viral clip and at the bottom right corner the credit is given to the Ministry of Defence of Peru. The viral picture is used as the thumbnail and the narrator informs about the 1970 Ancash earthquake, a massive 7.9 Richter scale earthquake that struck just off the coast of Peru.
The same image was also found in a blog post titled: A sand model landslide compared to the 2018 Llusco event (with coordinates of the Llusco slide!), published on The Geo Models by Philip S. Prince, Faculty member at Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources.
The description of the image informs that the picture is from the Llusco landslide of 2018, which occurred outside of Cusco, Peru, destroying the village of Lutto Kututo. The blog further goes on to explain the unfolding of the natural disaster using a sand model.
Also, a tweet published on the official handle of the Ministry of Defence of Peru, dated March 16, 2018, contains pictures from the landslide-torn region and one of the pictures matches exactly with the viral image, proving that it is from Peru, not Joshimath in India.
So, we can conclusively say that the viral picture showing the impact of cracks and landslides in Joshimath is false.
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