Requirement:
The video accurately indicates the world’s largest meteorite effect crater as being in Mexico.
Rating:
2025 September The X Post (archived) has watched more than 1 million times, according to the world’s largest meteorite impact crater and included a video of the alleged place. The video and claims were identical to those shared in an Instagram post (archived) a month ago, which was popular more than 21,000 times. Video and claims have spread to many other social media sites in a series of records where each one is.
Some social media recordings such as LinkedIn (archived) and Facebook (archived) allegedly found in the video as a Chicxulub crater.
The claim that the world’s greatest effect in the world is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world’s largest crater or even crater in Mexico; This is a video of a volcanic crater, commonly known as Kaldera.
The world’s largest and oldest known impact is the Vredefort crater, whose visible part is called Vredefort dome in South Africa, according to NASA and UNESCO. The calculation of scientists that the crater initially was between 180 and 300 kilometers (112-186 miles), but to find out that its exact width is heavy, as most of the crater disappeared over 2 billion years after its formation.
Because most of the largest impact craters are incredibly old, erosion is a common problem that makes them less visible than many newer, much smaller craters. This is also the case for Crater Mexico. Some records indicate the Chicxulub crater, which, based on the Earth Impact database, contains all the approved impact structures, which in Canada is the University of the New Brunswick, confirmed by the effect of the Earth’s asteroids.
The Chicxulub Crater Center is believed to be responsible for the disappearance of dinosaurs, underwater, right next to the shores of the Yucatan Peninsula, but its rim extends to dryness. The rim of the surface of the surface is invisible due to erosion and limestone rock above its top, according to the researcher Emilian Monroy-Ríos and UNESCO. The only evidence of the surface of the crater rim is the so-called Centot Ring-Crown holes filled with water-the Yucatan jungle.
So what is an impressive crater in a popular video? In the Spanish Canary Islands, it is Caldera Blanca, a volcanic crater, commonly called Caldera.
The oldest version of the video on the Internet that Snopes could have been fined was 2025. August 23, Instagram (archived) from the account leandrosoars.tr. The same Instagram account the next day posted another video (archived) the next day, when a man wearing the same white t -shirt, a black baseball hat and dark shorts as a man is seen in the first video of the same crater.
The Video version of the Leandrosoaars.tr, which was published a few days before the incorrect Instagram post containing 21,000 favorite, was longer than versions that it is influenced by a crater. Leandrosoaars.tr Instagram records correctly identified the crater as Caldera Blanca.
Video images match Caldera Blanca images. In the video, the brown crater is surrounded by a black earth with another smaller brown crater nearby, and what seems to be the ocean in the background. This is in line with the Caldera Blanca performance Google Maps as well as photos by Canary Islands tourism.
According to the Canary Islands tourism, Caldera Blanca, located in the volcanic city of Badlands near the shores of Lanzarote Island, was created a couple of volcanic eruptions in 1730 and 1736. It is a popular place for travelers visiting the island.
Sources:
“White boiler”. Hello Canary Islandswww.hellocanaryislands.com/hiking/lanzarote/caldera-blanca/. Accepted 2025. September 24th
“Blanca boiler · 35560, Las Palmas, Spain”. Google Mapsmaps.app.Goo.gl/z3qbhzydjyjydjyjac2ec7. Accepted 2025. September 24th
Hansen, Kathryn. “Explosion from the past: Vredefort Crater”. Nasa.govNASA Land Observatory, 2025 July 2, earthobservator.nasa.gov/images/154502/blast-from-the-pas-vredefort-crater. Accepted 2025. September 24th
Leandrosares.tr. “📍 Blanca Caldera 🌋 #calderablanca #Parquenanationaldenmenmitya #parquenuraldelosvolcanes #lanzarote #canarias #canaryislands.” Instagram2025 August 23, www.instagram.com/reel/dnshrrrv2fzr/. Accepted 2025. September 24th
Monroy-Rios, Emiliano. “Chicxulub Crater and Centoi Ring”. Coffin geochemistry and hydrogeology2018 April 4, SITES.NORTHWESTERN.EDU/MONROIRIOS/Some—-chicxulub-and-centots/. Accepted 2025. September 24th
Chicxulub Crater, Yucatan Cenotes Ring. UNESCO World Heritage Center2012 November 12, whc.unesco.org/en/testaVelists/5784/. Accepted 2025. September 24th
Spray, John. “Sorted by diameter”. Land stroke databaseThe Center for Planets and Space Science of the New Brunswick University, www.passc.net/earthimpactabase/new%20website_05-2018/dametersort.html. Accepted 2025. September 24th
Vredefort Dome. UNESCO World Heritage Center2005, whC.Unsco.org/en/list/1162/. Accepted 2025. September 24th