A recent Facebook post purports to show a series of video clips of the destruction wrought by an “earthquake in Taiwan.” 

The video features dark billowing clouds of debris and buildings crumbling set to an audio track that’s been used in TikTok videos that have been altered to show people, animals and buildings magically materializing in clouds. 

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The video includes a shot of a building damaged in April in Hualien, Taiwan, in the biggest earthquake to hit the country in 25 years.

But the rest of the footage appears to show controlled demolitions in China several years ago and a 2020 eruption in Indonesia, when Mount Sinabung spewed thousands of feet of volcanic material into the sky. 

We rate claims that this video shows buildings crumbling because of an earthquake in Taiwan False.