Sumatra Island Tsunami Wave Photograph Hoax
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The claim
Email claims that an attached photograph shows a residential area in Sumatra about to be engulfed by a gigantic tsunami wave.
1/2 a second before tsunami
The last picture! There are people who believe in God, there are others who don’t believe, but we must understand that we are small when nature hits…
This picture was taken on the banks of Sumatra Island (the height of waves was of approx. 32 m = 105 ft). It was found saved in a digital camera, 1 1/2 years after the disaster.
We cannot know for sure, but very likely the one who took the picture is not alive any more (it was just a matter of seconds). Today we can see the last image he/ she saw before ending life on Earth!
What the fact-checkers found
The photograph does not depict a tsunami wave nor was it taken in Sumatra. In fact, the “wave” shown in the photograph is a large dust storm that hit the town of Griffith, NSW Australia in 2002.
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