Old storm clip misrepresented as powerful Typhoon Ragasa
The Super Typhon Ragasa swept the Philippines, Taiwan and southern China in September 2025, bringing fierce winds and hammering rains, but images of people fighting against a train platform do not show the recent storm. The video actually represents a sudden wind storm which struck a station in the south of the city of Shanwei in China in April 2024.
“Damn, Super Typhoon Ragasa measures 230 km / hour, it’s really fast,” said an Indonesian language tiktok on September 24, 2025.
The video of people hanging on a pillar while a powerful explosion of wind blows on a station platform has been seen more than 23,000 times.
False Tiktok post screenshot taken on September 24, 2025, with the Red Cross brand added by AFP
Similar publications connecting video to Typhon Ragasa have circulated on publications on social networks in various languages, including Chinese, English, Polish, Malays and Thai.
The storm, marked the most powerful of the year by the weather authorities in Hong Kong, also struck the Philippines, Taiwan and Macao before crashing in southern China with winds up to 145 kilometers per hour (90 miles per hour) (archived link).
He torn the trees, destroyed fences and exploded buildings in the Guangdong province, which houses tens of millions of people.
The passage from Ragasa to Taiwan killed at least 14 years and injured dozens of others when a barrier lake broke in the east of the county of Hualien, according to officials.
In the Hong Kong financial center, the typhoon caused floods, uprooted trees and anchored hundreds of passenger flights.
However, the circulating clip is old.
Reverse image searches on Google found screenshots of the video published in Taiwanese media reports on a strong storm that struck Shanwei station in Guangdong on April 27, 2024 (archived here and here).
The clip was Also shared on Weibo on April 29, 2024 (archived link). A panel reading “Shanwei Railway Gare” in Chinese and simplified English can be seen at the start of the clip.
Video screenshot comparison (L) wrongly and a corresponding screenshot of an old Taiwanese media ratio
The video corresponds to a geotagged photo of the station on Google Maps (archived link).
False post screenshot comparison (L) and an image of Google Maps
The online news portal affiliated with the Chinese state for Nanfang Daily published a report on September 23, 2025 to demystify the complaint that the video was taken during the Typhon Ragasa (Archived link).
The report indicates that the Shanwei authorities said the time was stable at the station that day.
