The false posts misused footage from December 2023 that showed a rogue wave in California's Ventura county, according to the Facebook user who originally took it. "A small tsunami in California ...

Johannes Gemmrich, a physicist from the University of Victoria, emphasized the significance of this event : "Proportionally, ...

The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at the time. Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.