Is a video of shelves falling in an electronics store from the massive Russian earthquake on July 29, 2025? No, that’s not true: The video was recorded by a security camera in a store in Myanmar when an earthquake struck there on March 28, 2025. The video, which shows a clerk ducking under a counter as shelves crash on top of her, has been on YouTube for three months. The magnitude 8.8 earthquake about 800 miles off Russia’s Pacific coast triggered tsunami warnings on the Pacific coast of the United States.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared on TikTok just as the tsunami warnings were issued on July 29, 2025. The caption above the video clip read:
Breaking right now…
Earthquake near Russia 8.7 magnitude and a tsunami alert has spread to Alaska, Japan, and Russia.. Developing story here as information is just coming out now.. Prayers for all in its wake..
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
Source: screenshot of TikTok by Lead Stories
A reverse image search revealed that the video (archived here) had been posted on YouTube three months earlier, after the March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake.
