Photo Gallery (Indian Ocean Tsunami)

Snopes tiene una galeria de fotos que se han hecho pasar por fotos del tsunami... ya saben los "foto tomada segundo antes desde un edificio" Hay galerias de fotos verdaderas y falsas con sus respectivos lugares y explicaciones:



Origins: These photographs are yet another examples of any images depicting large waves being grabbed and passed around as "real photographs" of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These pictures were purportedly taken in Thailand in December 2004, but they actually date from 2002 and depict not a tsunami, but a tidal bore (unusually high tides resulting in waters flowing upstream at high speeds) on the Qian Tang Jiang River, in Hangzhou, China.

Tidal bores occur at predictable times, and watching these events is a four-day-long government-sponsored tourist festival in China, hence there were plenty of people and photographers on hand to observe the one captured in the pictures above. Several news outlets in a variety of countries have been taken in by these photos and have run them as pictures of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.


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