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After a powerful earthquake struck central Philippines on the night of September 30, posts recirculated<\/span> old videos purporting to show the intensity of the tremor on social media. But the clips in fact show different quakes in the southern Philippines, Japan and Myanmar.<\/p>\n “What a serious earthquake, 6.7 [magnitude] in Cebu \/ Lord god bless,” says the Tagalog overlaid text on a\u00a0Facebook video<\/a> shared on September 30, 2025.<\/p>\n The video — which racked up at least three million views — shows tables and chairs suddenly trembling at a rooftop bar, sending customers scrambling for cover.<\/p>\n A magnitude-6.9 quake struck central Philippines’ Cebu on late September 30, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n The death toll<\/a> from the quake rose to at least 72 by Thursday, according to rescuers (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n A separate\u00a0TikTok video<\/a> shared on the same day shows people in a retail store ducking for cover as the shelves swayed.<\/p>\n