Typhoon Fung-wong creates huge waves on Philippines coastpublished at 11:25 GMT
11:25 GMT
Sherie Ryder
BBC Verify journalist
Image source, XImage caption,
A screengrab from a video showing large waves lashing a village in the Philippines
We’ve been looking at the impact of Typhoon Fung-wong which hit the Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least two people dead and forcing the evacuation of around 1.4 million.
In one clip which has been shared on X and Facebook we can see an enormous wave rising above roof height at a village on the coast of Gigmoto, Catanduanes. The houses appear to stay intact, but water passes in between them and forms almost a river in the street behind.
We checked the buildings seen in the footage with available satellite imagery. Handily the village is covered by Google Street View meaning we could get a close-up match with one two-storey house in particular that is in the video as well as comparing palm trees and telephone cables.
In another clip that has been widely shared this morning a huge wave is seen to crash through a coastal resort on Luzon island in the north of the Philippines. As the person filming runs from the wave their camera picks out a sign showing it is the LA Sunshine Beach Resort in Dinadiawan, a village in Aurora province.
We have checked the resort’s Facebook page and can see it has been closed for renovations.
We do see sometimes see old footage being passed off as new when natural disasters happen so we carried out reverse image searches of several screengrabs and found nothing had been posted before the weekend.