“They are going to upload some photos of the Calvario earthquake on WhatsApp. The file is called CARD Seismic Waves“This is a message that has been circulating for several days on social networks. It seems like a worrying message, but several verifiers have verified that there are no records of such danger.

The message does not refer to morocco earthquake, but to a chain of tremors recorded in central Colombia over several days in August 2023, one of which reached magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale. The epicenter of this chain of earthquakes is the municipality of El Calvario, about 55 kilometers from the capital, Bogotá. However, as explained by Newtral and other verifiers, there is no record of any attack related to a photo file called Ondas Seismicas CARD.

This is not the first time that these types of messages have circulated, warning of the presence of viruses in some video or photo files. The message about the CARD Seismic Waves file has been circulating on networks for some time. The one that points to the file related to the Calvary earthquake is from the end of August, but last July similar messages were shared referring to an earthquake in Cariaco, In Venezuela. Cazadores de Fake News already pointed out then that “phones cannot be ‘hacked’ through images” and that there were no records of complaints in this regard to the authorities.

Another similar message began to circulate some time ago referring to images of the Chillán volcano in Chile, although at that time the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) already assured Newtral that it was a hoax and that There was no cyber attack with these characteristics.