False claims about the earthquake that killed 38 people in Japan have spread on social media, from denials that the tremor occurred at all to fabricated images of the wreckage.
The magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit the southern island of Kyushu in Kumamoto prefecture on 28 July, collapsing a part of a shopping centre in Kashima when thousands of people were inside and prompting the evacuation of nearly 300,000 residents. The prefectural government said on Monday that 38 had died and more than 120 injured.
