Similar Facebook posts shared the video\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n At least four people died after\u00a0heavy flooding<\/a> hit the United Arab Emirates, including three Filipino workers.<\/p>\n Two women suffocated inside their vehicle during the flooding in Dubai and one man died when his vehicle fell into a sinkhole in Sharjah, the Philippines’ Department of Migrant Workers said.<\/p>\n A 70-year-old man was also swept away in his vehicle in Ras Al-Khaimah, another of the oil-rich Gulf state’s seven emirates.<\/p>\n However, the video in the false posts shows a tsunami that surged through the Japanese prefecture of Iwate in 2011 — the worst natural disaster in the East Asian country’s living memory.<\/p>\n A Google reverse image search found a similar video\u00a0of the 2011 Japan tsunami posted<\/a> on YouTube by Japan News Network on February 25, 2021 (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n According to the caption, the footage shows “a huge tsunami washed away cars and containers along the coast of Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture” on March 11, 2011.<\/p>\n Below is a screenshot comparison of the false post (left) and Japan News Network’s video at the one-minute 57-second mark (right), with corresponding elements highlighted by AFP:<\/p>\nJapan tsunami<\/h3>\n