Recently, a video claiming to show a tsunami from 30,000 feet in the air has gone viral on social media. Some posts claim the video was taken in Russia, while others say it is from Japan. The video shows a massive wave in the ocean through the window of an airplane.

See the Facebook posts promoting this claim: here, here, here, and here.

See the same claim circulated on YouTube: here.

See a report by an Indian media outlet promoting the same claim: News18 Bangla.

Fact-Check

Rumor Scanner’s investigation revealed that the viral video is not actual footage of a tsunami taken from 30,000 feet. Rather, it is a fake video created using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

In the course of the investigation, the same video was found on a TikTok profile named ‘t.ho.m.1.1.02’: link. The video description includes the hashtag ‘#aiart’.

Further browsing of the same profile revealed several more videos created using AI.

Subsequently, the video was tested using the AI content detection tool Hive Moderation, which determined there is an 89.7% likelihood that it was created using AI.