Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Earthquakes

2024 New Jersey earthquake

The earthquake that happened today needs some attention from members of this project, who are experts in this area. An editor declined the creation of Draft:2024 New Jersey earthquake, and now someone else has recreated the article with a worse title, 2024 Lebanon, New Jersey earthquake. Albany NY (talk) 15:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

This earthquake lacks any significant impact and is therefore not notable per WP: EVENT. Mikenorton (talk) 15:41, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

There are dozens if not hundreds of news articles covering this across multiple states, and government officials are giving briefings on it. Earthquakes of this magnitude are rare in the northeastern US. [1] --Albany NY (talk) 16:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

The critical thing in WP: EVENT is enduring impact and coverage - read the guideline. Mikenorton (talk) 16:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Expert input please

Talk:Istanbul‎#‎Earthquake prediction on the lead section Moxy🍁 15:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion for merging two lists

List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands seem to be covering the same region/area. Can someone from the project help in either merging or splitting? Thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:46, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

They're very similar and were created by the same editor at about the same time. @Ligocsicnarf89: could you explain why we have two articles? Mikenorton (talk) 21:01, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I note that this issue was raised on that user's talk page more than two years ago - there was no response. Mikenorton (talk) 20:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

A lot of the entries aren't remotely notable so if we trimmed away those, the list would probably be short enough to merge into List of earthquakes in the Caribbean. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:21, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I've made a suggestion to trim the Puerto Rico list at the article's talk page. I propose that we wait to see how that looks, merge anything useful from the +Virgin islands list (which I suspect will be nothing) and then decide if it's worth keeping as a separate article. Mikenorton (talk) 09:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Hm, after reducing the article, I now see that more than 20% of the events are actually around the Virgin Islands, so perhaps that is the title that we should use. Mikenorton (talk) 15:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

So the only difference between the two articles that I can see is a paragraph in the one with the Virgin Islands that appears to be a COPYVIO of one of the sources. I've gone ahead and replaced the List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with the text from the much reduced List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico, replacing that text with a redirect. I've removed a couple of earthquakes that are regarded as "non-existent" by McCann et al. (2010). I think that I'm done for now. What remains is I think worth having as a standalone article. Mikenorton (talk) 19:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Mikenorton: thank you very much for fixing that list. Much appreciated!! --Funandtrvl (talk) 00:35, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Lowercasing of all tectonic plates discussed in a relisted RM

A discussion of lowercasing the titles of all tectonic plates on Wikipedia was relisted at Talk:Eurasian Plate#Requested move 6 October 2024 a few days ago. Editors here may have an interest in participating before it closes. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:38, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

An RM to lowercase named fracture zones

Talk:Mendocino Fracture Zone#Requested move 20 November 2024 may be of interest to editors here, a request to lowercase names of multiple named fracture zones. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:59, 20 November 2024 (UTC)