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I would really appreciate it if editors who think that a page should be moved to another title would discuss this first. Where is the evidence that the new title is the 'proper name'? Refs 2, 3, 4 & 6 all use the 'Rann of Kachchh'. Also none of the redirects have been fixed - I'm not doing them, because the last time I did that for one of my recently created articles, the name was changed back and I had to fix them all again. Mikenorton ( talk) 11:47, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
The time of this earthquake in UTC in the first source appears to be incorrect as it should obviously be earlier than the local time rather than later. It's not the first time that I've found errors in the NOAA/NGDC earthquake database. I'll try to contact them about it, but until then I think that it's safer to just use the local time given in the source and remove the UTC, so that's what I'll do. Mikenorton ( talk) 17:50, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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@ Mikenorton: Hi, I was on some other unrelated info-quest (like the one leading to 847 Damascus earthquake), and randomly came across this contemporary account which was printed in many other journals at the time:
I'm not sure if any of the following could be used in the article, but it says that there were an estimated 2000 fatal casualties in Bhuj alone, with up to 1500 already recovered from the ruins. At Jaisalmer the fort was reduced to rubble, and it seems to my un-mathematical brain that the loss of 500 wedding guests in the streets there could be included in the total reported in Bhuj. Mundra was also severely affected. Apparently no lives were lost in Ahmedabad (the capital of Gujarat) despite the destruction of the 450-year old minarets. (p. 18)
The earthquake in June was followed by a severe storm in Kutch district of great destructive force on 9-10 October 1819, which laid waste to the fields and tore up trees by their roots; towns and villages were destroyed by inundated rivers, with four feet of flooding on the plains. There was little loss of life, but great numbers of cattle were destroyed. (p. 19) Cheers, MinorProphet ( talk) 17:19, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
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Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " On this day..." column on June 16, 2019, and June 16, 2022. |
I would really appreciate it if editors who think that a page should be moved to another title would discuss this first. Where is the evidence that the new title is the 'proper name'? Refs 2, 3, 4 & 6 all use the 'Rann of Kachchh'. Also none of the redirects have been fixed - I'm not doing them, because the last time I did that for one of my recently created articles, the name was changed back and I had to fix them all again. Mikenorton ( talk) 11:47, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
The time of this earthquake in UTC in the first source appears to be incorrect as it should obviously be earlier than the local time rather than later. It's not the first time that I've found errors in the NOAA/NGDC earthquake database. I'll try to contact them about it, but until then I think that it's safer to just use the local time given in the source and remove the UTC, so that's what I'll do. Mikenorton ( talk) 17:50, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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@ Mikenorton: Hi, I was on some other unrelated info-quest (like the one leading to 847 Damascus earthquake), and randomly came across this contemporary account which was printed in many other journals at the time:
I'm not sure if any of the following could be used in the article, but it says that there were an estimated 2000 fatal casualties in Bhuj alone, with up to 1500 already recovered from the ruins. At Jaisalmer the fort was reduced to rubble, and it seems to my un-mathematical brain that the loss of 500 wedding guests in the streets there could be included in the total reported in Bhuj. Mundra was also severely affected. Apparently no lives were lost in Ahmedabad (the capital of Gujarat) despite the destruction of the 450-year old minarets. (p. 18)
The earthquake in June was followed by a severe storm in Kutch district of great destructive force on 9-10 October 1819, which laid waste to the fields and tore up trees by their roots; towns and villages were destroyed by inundated rivers, with four feet of flooding on the plains. There was little loss of life, but great numbers of cattle were destroyed. (p. 19) Cheers, MinorProphet ( talk) 17:19, 8 October 2017 (UTC)