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The result of the move request was no conclusion -- Aervanath ( talk) 17:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Historical Earthquakes → ? — This article was just split from the List of earthquakes, but the title, if not the selection criteria, seems rather vague. Of course, "earthquakes" needs to be in lowercase, but why is 464 BC - 2001 AD "historical"? And why aren't other earthquakes dating back to 1556, found on the other list, here? Aren't they too "historical"? A better title linking these needs to be found, or else we could just merge it back in, as there's plenty of room there. — Biruitorul Talk 06:58, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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1831 BC in the Shandong province of China
Source : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/facts.php (a US government website) .(see point 31 of that webpage)
Wild Panda888 ( talk) 10:25, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
There was a large scale earthquake (Estimated 7.8 magnitude to 8.2 magnitude) that occurred in roughly 750 BCE (Give or take 30 years) North of Israel. This earthquake did significant damage to many structures in the Kingdom of Judah and allegedly is the event that led to him contracted leprosy. There are quite a few citations confirming this event did happen and it is not currently on the list. Is it okay if I add it? Also can we make this the general category for missing historical earthquakes, I have this feeling like there are quite a few. Jyggalypuff ( talk) 23:22, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
Here are two articles discussing the archaelogical evidence for the Israel earthquake around 760 BCE https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-fact-checking-the-book-of-amos-there-was-a-huge-quake-in-eighth-century-b-c-e-1.6807298 https://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2413 Zohre6 ( talk) 07:55, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
The new version of this page was created by merging the pre-1901 parts of the existing List of earthquakes and Historical earthquakes pages. Additionally all the events listed have been confirmed by at least one source. One event present in both lists has been merged into one entry. Seven events have been removed due to the lack of either any source or uncertain notability; these are:
These events should be moved back if anyone can find a reliable source for them, of course. A longer term plan would be to replace the generic USGS source with individual sources for those events from the original USGS-derived list. Mikenorton ( talk) 11:06, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello: What a useful page! However, you may want to add Wikipedia's "Giralda" wikipage, Spain on 1365(see third paragraph). The Giralda is a substantial monument, hence the fact that it toppled over makes it not likely a small quake.
Thanks,
Theresa Meuse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.107.26 ( talk) 02:35, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
In short, it sucks. Can someone not me change it so that you can actually put it in date order? -- One Salient Oversight ( talk) 07:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
|data-sort-value="XXXX"
.
Jroberson108 (
talk) 01:48, 6 September 2023 (UTC){{dts|4 July 2012}}
, which gives 4 July 2012 with the added data-sort-value="000000002012-07-04-0000"
(see
Template:Date_table_sorting)
Jroberson108 (
talk) 02:05, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
data-sort-value\="(.*)" \| (.*) \2 <span style="display:none">.*</span>(.*) \1 \|-\r\n^\| (.*)$ \|-\r\n| {{dts\|\1}} \{\{dts\|\{\{dts\|(.*)\}\}\}\} {{dts|\1}} dts\|(.*) BC dts\|-\1
Good night,
I would ask your help to include this major earthquake described on THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE, WRITTEN BY C. PLINIVS SECVNDVS.
The event is significant as it was described in terms that today we can recognize as a giant earthquake followed by a tsunami that destroyed 12 cities in Asia during the ruling of Roman Emperor Tiberius (sometime between 14 AD to 37 AD). I am not confident to change the table already existent by myself.
According to Plinius, Chapter LXXXIIII, Wonders of Earthquakes:
"There happen together with Earthquakes, deluges also and inundations of the sea, to wit, infused and entring into the earth with the same aire and wind, or else received into the hollow receptacle, as it setleth downe. The greatest Earthquake within the remembrance of man, was that which chaunced during the Empire of Tiberius Cæsar, when 12 cities of Asia were over-turned and laid flat in one night."
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/pliny2.html
<e-mail address removed>
I appreciate your help, thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.28.119.48 ( talk) 03:31, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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This list currently specifies "historical" as "before 1901". I propose that "before 1900" should be adopted, on the basis that it better aligns with the distinction seismologists make between "historical" (or "pre-instrumental") and the modern era of seismic data, and also aligns with cut-off in the principal catalogs. While not every cataloged event since 1900-01-01 was instrumentally recorded, seismologists have gone to great lengths to obtain equivalent data, and that date does mark a divide in the availability and completeness of seismological data.
I realize that for many people it is a high point of exactitude that the year "1900" is in the 19th century. A similar level of exactitude would suggest inclusion of the dozen or earthquakes listed for 1900 in Template:Earthquakes by year, instead of only one. As that has not been done such sentiment is shown to be inconsistent, besides contrary to seismological practices, and it would be best to remove the single exception.
A related consideration: the {{
Infobox earthquake}} template now expects links to the ISC and ANSS catalogs, which go back to 1900-01-01, and also an ISO-formated UTC timestamp, unless |pre-1900=yes
is specified. In that case these expectations are relaxed, and the earthquake is added to
Category:Articles on pre-1900 earthquakes. This provides with an intrinsic means of identifying "historical" earthquakes. ~
J. Johnson (JJ) (
talk) 22:02, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
A rather belated follow-up:
Template:Infobox earthquake now has a |pre-1900=
parameter, which if set to "y" relaxes the requirement for |timestamp=
, and automatically lists the article in
Category:Articles on pre-1900 earthquakes. ♦
J. Johnson (JJ) (
talk) 23:40, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
The seismic wave etc. (Mw) symbols needed to be explained. Simply inking one of them one time to a page that is rather arcane is not a service to our readers. Kdammers ( talk) 03:30, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
symbols needed to be explained." (Incidentally, the Mw, Ms, etc., symbols are not for seismic waves, but for seismic magnitude scales.) We use wikilinks (as just illustrated) to any detailed explanations so we don't burden articles with digressions every time a particular symbol or term is used. I trust you have no objections to that, nor, at least as far as they go, to my last three edits to this list ( here, here, and here), which replaced several existing un-linked, un-explained symbols with one that is linked to an explanation.
one of them one time"? Well, first of all my intention was only to illustrate (as mentioned in the edit summaries) how to do this, leaving it open whether this should be done generally. Second, I was following a general convention of explaining (or explicating) something only the first time it appears in the text. The specific WP guideline (at MOS:REPEATLINK) is: "
Generally, a link should appear only once in an article, but if helpful for readers, a link may be repeated in infoboxes, tables, image captions, footnotes, hatnotes, and at the first occurrence after the lead."
Duplicate linking in stand-alone and embedded lists is permissible if it significantly aids the reader.[Such as]
expected to be parsed for particular bits of data, not read from top to bottom." I think that reasonably covers this case, but am not sure but that some editors would consider linking every use of the symbol a case of WP:OVERLINK. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to clarify that.
The Middle Eastern earthquake of 847 has the reader directed to the blue link 847 Antioch earthquake. This link takes us via a re-direct to the 847 Damascus earthquake. The epicenter lies between the two cities but is closer to Damascus. Regardless of whether the earthquake or earthquakes recorded for Mosul, Homs, Damascus and Antioch on that day were one or more than one events and how the event(s) should be titled on the page for the event(s) that day, should(n't) our link be to the title of the relevant Wikipedia page rahter than to a re-direct to that page? Kdammers ( talk) 03:40, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3325-3_23 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.26.41.82 ( talk) 20:50, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
I notice that several earthquake articles listed at List of earthquakes in Turkey & List of earthquakes in Japan are not included here. Is there a reason not to include them? (If I don't see a reply in a few days, & remember this discrepancy, I'll go ahead & update this list with those articles.)
A second question, about the size of this article, which at the moment is over 90Kb in size: should the section on 19th century earthquakes be split off into its own list article? (Asking these questions since I don't normally edit articles in this area.) -- llywrch ( talk) 05:01, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182070 towards the end of the first column. Only a mention. jayoval ( talk) 01:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was no conclusion -- Aervanath ( talk) 17:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Historical Earthquakes → ? — This article was just split from the List of earthquakes, but the title, if not the selection criteria, seems rather vague. Of course, "earthquakes" needs to be in lowercase, but why is 464 BC - 2001 AD "historical"? And why aren't other earthquakes dating back to 1556, found on the other list, here? Aren't they too "historical"? A better title linking these needs to be found, or else we could just merge it back in, as there's plenty of room there. — Biruitorul Talk 06:58, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
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Wikipedia's naming conventions.There is at least 1 ancient earthquake missing from the list.
1831 BC in the Shandong province of China
Source : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/facts.php (a US government website) .(see point 31 of that webpage)
Wild Panda888 ( talk) 10:25, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
There was a large scale earthquake (Estimated 7.8 magnitude to 8.2 magnitude) that occurred in roughly 750 BCE (Give or take 30 years) North of Israel. This earthquake did significant damage to many structures in the Kingdom of Judah and allegedly is the event that led to him contracted leprosy. There are quite a few citations confirming this event did happen and it is not currently on the list. Is it okay if I add it? Also can we make this the general category for missing historical earthquakes, I have this feeling like there are quite a few. Jyggalypuff ( talk) 23:22, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
Here are two articles discussing the archaelogical evidence for the Israel earthquake around 760 BCE https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-fact-checking-the-book-of-amos-there-was-a-huge-quake-in-eighth-century-b-c-e-1.6807298 https://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2413 Zohre6 ( talk) 07:55, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
The new version of this page was created by merging the pre-1901 parts of the existing List of earthquakes and Historical earthquakes pages. Additionally all the events listed have been confirmed by at least one source. One event present in both lists has been merged into one entry. Seven events have been removed due to the lack of either any source or uncertain notability; these are:
These events should be moved back if anyone can find a reliable source for them, of course. A longer term plan would be to replace the generic USGS source with individual sources for those events from the original USGS-derived list. Mikenorton ( talk) 11:06, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Hello: What a useful page! However, you may want to add Wikipedia's "Giralda" wikipage, Spain on 1365(see third paragraph). The Giralda is a substantial monument, hence the fact that it toppled over makes it not likely a small quake.
Thanks,
Theresa Meuse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.107.26 ( talk) 02:35, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
In short, it sucks. Can someone not me change it so that you can actually put it in date order? -- One Salient Oversight ( talk) 07:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
|data-sort-value="XXXX"
.
Jroberson108 (
talk) 01:48, 6 September 2023 (UTC){{dts|4 July 2012}}
, which gives 4 July 2012 with the added data-sort-value="000000002012-07-04-0000"
(see
Template:Date_table_sorting)
Jroberson108 (
talk) 02:05, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
data-sort-value\="(.*)" \| (.*) \2 <span style="display:none">.*</span>(.*) \1 \|-\r\n^\| (.*)$ \|-\r\n| {{dts\|\1}} \{\{dts\|\{\{dts\|(.*)\}\}\}\} {{dts|\1}} dts\|(.*) BC dts\|-\1
Good night,
I would ask your help to include this major earthquake described on THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE, WRITTEN BY C. PLINIVS SECVNDVS.
The event is significant as it was described in terms that today we can recognize as a giant earthquake followed by a tsunami that destroyed 12 cities in Asia during the ruling of Roman Emperor Tiberius (sometime between 14 AD to 37 AD). I am not confident to change the table already existent by myself.
According to Plinius, Chapter LXXXIIII, Wonders of Earthquakes:
"There happen together with Earthquakes, deluges also and inundations of the sea, to wit, infused and entring into the earth with the same aire and wind, or else received into the hollow receptacle, as it setleth downe. The greatest Earthquake within the remembrance of man, was that which chaunced during the Empire of Tiberius Cæsar, when 12 cities of Asia were over-turned and laid flat in one night."
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/pliny2.html
<e-mail address removed>
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This list currently specifies "historical" as "before 1901". I propose that "before 1900" should be adopted, on the basis that it better aligns with the distinction seismologists make between "historical" (or "pre-instrumental") and the modern era of seismic data, and also aligns with cut-off in the principal catalogs. While not every cataloged event since 1900-01-01 was instrumentally recorded, seismologists have gone to great lengths to obtain equivalent data, and that date does mark a divide in the availability and completeness of seismological data.
I realize that for many people it is a high point of exactitude that the year "1900" is in the 19th century. A similar level of exactitude would suggest inclusion of the dozen or earthquakes listed for 1900 in Template:Earthquakes by year, instead of only one. As that has not been done such sentiment is shown to be inconsistent, besides contrary to seismological practices, and it would be best to remove the single exception.
A related consideration: the {{
Infobox earthquake}} template now expects links to the ISC and ANSS catalogs, which go back to 1900-01-01, and also an ISO-formated UTC timestamp, unless |pre-1900=yes
is specified. In that case these expectations are relaxed, and the earthquake is added to
Category:Articles on pre-1900 earthquakes. This provides with an intrinsic means of identifying "historical" earthquakes. ~
J. Johnson (JJ) (
talk) 22:02, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
A rather belated follow-up:
Template:Infobox earthquake now has a |pre-1900=
parameter, which if set to "y" relaxes the requirement for |timestamp=
, and automatically lists the article in
Category:Articles on pre-1900 earthquakes. ♦
J. Johnson (JJ) (
talk) 23:40, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
The seismic wave etc. (Mw) symbols needed to be explained. Simply inking one of them one time to a page that is rather arcane is not a service to our readers. Kdammers ( talk) 03:30, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
symbols needed to be explained." (Incidentally, the Mw, Ms, etc., symbols are not for seismic waves, but for seismic magnitude scales.) We use wikilinks (as just illustrated) to any detailed explanations so we don't burden articles with digressions every time a particular symbol or term is used. I trust you have no objections to that, nor, at least as far as they go, to my last three edits to this list ( here, here, and here), which replaced several existing un-linked, un-explained symbols with one that is linked to an explanation.
one of them one time"? Well, first of all my intention was only to illustrate (as mentioned in the edit summaries) how to do this, leaving it open whether this should be done generally. Second, I was following a general convention of explaining (or explicating) something only the first time it appears in the text. The specific WP guideline (at MOS:REPEATLINK) is: "
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expected to be parsed for particular bits of data, not read from top to bottom." I think that reasonably covers this case, but am not sure but that some editors would consider linking every use of the symbol a case of WP:OVERLINK. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to clarify that.
The Middle Eastern earthquake of 847 has the reader directed to the blue link 847 Antioch earthquake. This link takes us via a re-direct to the 847 Damascus earthquake. The epicenter lies between the two cities but is closer to Damascus. Regardless of whether the earthquake or earthquakes recorded for Mosul, Homs, Damascus and Antioch on that day were one or more than one events and how the event(s) should be titled on the page for the event(s) that day, should(n't) our link be to the title of the relevant Wikipedia page rahter than to a re-direct to that page? Kdammers ( talk) 03:40, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3325-3_23 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.26.41.82 ( talk) 20:50, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
I notice that several earthquake articles listed at List of earthquakes in Turkey & List of earthquakes in Japan are not included here. Is there a reason not to include them? (If I don't see a reply in a few days, & remember this discrepancy, I'll go ahead & update this list with those articles.)
A second question, about the size of this article, which at the moment is over 90Kb in size: should the section on 19th century earthquakes be split off into its own list article? (Asking these questions since I don't normally edit articles in this area.) -- llywrch ( talk) 05:01, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182070 towards the end of the first column. Only a mention. jayoval ( talk) 01:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)