The video was also shared in a Facebook post falsely linking it to the tremor, while a Taiwanese newspaper article falsely shared a screenshot of it.
Peru landslide
A Google reverse image search of the video and keyword searches found the footage in an article about a landslide in Peru in March — one month before the Taiwan earthquake.
Peruvian newspaper La República reported that nobody was killed by the landslide, which caused significant damage to the highway (archived link).
“The incident seriously impacted two trucks travelling through the area, although fortunately, the gigantic rocks did not cause any human deaths,” it says in Spanish.
“They only damaged the rear part of the vehicles, which prevented a greater tragedy.”
The incident happened on March 2 on the Carretera Central highway in the San Mateo district of Huarochirí province, La República reported — which is around 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of the capital Lima.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the video shared in false posts (left) and in La República’s article (right):
Peru’s state broadcaster TV Perú also published the footage in various reports on the incident (archived link).
Google Street View images based on the latitude and longitude codes seen in the footage and the location mentioned in news reports confirm the video was filmed on Peru’s Carretera Central highway.
Below is a screenshot comparison between the video (left) and Google Maps imagery of the highway (right), with similarities highlighted by AFP:
Natural disasters often prompt a flurry of misinformation. AFP has debunked various false claims around the Taiwan earthquake here.