False Meteor Photo Circulates After Earthquake in Mindanao

There was no meteor captured on camera during the Magnitude 7.4 earthquake that rocked parts of Mindanao at 10:37 p.m. on Saturday. Facebook user Yrram Neaj Sonreb Itmana posted the false photo following the tremor that shook parts of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. (My Huawei phone’s night camera captured this during the earthquake),” the caption reads. The post had been taken down at 9 a.m. Sunday, December 3, but not before some Facebook users have been able to take screenshots of it.

, the photo was taken accidentally as Yadav had setup a time lapse photo “when this bright green meteor exploded over Mettupalayam, a small town in the mountainous Western Ghats region of southern India.”As with all our other reports, MindaNews welcomes leads or suggestions from the public to potential fact-check stories. MindaNews is the news service arm of the Mindanao Institute of Journalism. It is composed of independent, professional journalists who believe and practice people empowerment through medi

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