No, this is not a video of birds and other animals fleeing danger before Turkey’s earthquake. - iVerify Kenya

No, this is not a video of birds and other animals fleeing danger before Turkey’s earthquake.

False

The video circulating on the internet is neither recent nor related to the recent earthquake in Turkey.

The video was shot in Houston, Texas in January 2017.

On February 6, 2023, an earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria killed over 7,000 people.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Gaziantep on Monday at 04:17 (01:17 GMT). A subsequent tremor was nearly as big, with its epicentre in Kahramanmaras province’s Elbistan district.

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Verified Feb, 09 2023

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Birds and other animals in Turkey detect danger before the earthquake.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We performed a Google reverse image search and discovered that the video was shot in Houston, Texas and shared on Instagram on January 20, 2017.

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