Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes
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Welcome to WikiProject Earthquakes, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving the coverage of earthquake-related articles. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.
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[edit] Goals
- This WikiProject aims to enhance information on earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, tectonic plates, and related articles.
[edit] News
- May 22 2008- The project has been started.
- June 9 2008- Over 300 articles have been added to the project scope.
[edit] Scope
- All articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles.
Please feel free to join the project and expand its scope in any necessary directions.
[edit] Related WikiProjects
- Parent: WikiProject Disaster management
- Children: WikiProject Australian history/Earthquake and landslide disasters
[edit] Assessment
In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the {{WP Earthquakes}} project banner on an article's talk page:
Add articles to the scope by adding {{WP Earthquakes|class=|importance=}}
Please feel free to visit the /Assessment page.
[edit] Featured Content
As of June 6 2008, one featured article has been given a WikiProject Earthquakes notice:
[edit] Good Articles
[edit] Former Featured Content
[edit] DYKs
The following articles appeared on the Did you know section in the main page.
- February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake - 30 April 2008
- May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake - 4 May 2008
- 1999 Chamoli earthquake - 16 May 2008
- 1997 Jabalpur earthquake - 26 May 2008
- 2003 Boumerdès earthquake - 27 May 2008
- 1994 Bolivia earthquake - 27 May 2008
- 1992 Nicaragua earthquake - 11 June 2008
[edit] Open tasks
- Add the WikiProject Earthquakes message box {{WP Earthquakes}} to talk pages of articles within the scope of this project, including appropriate assessments if needed.
- Add references to all earthquake-related articles.
- Expand the list of earthquakes, it is very belittled.
- Bring 1992 Nicaragua earthquake to FA status.
Feel free to add on to this "to-do" list.
[edit] Guidelines
Feel free to join the project.
[edit] Participants
| User | Areas of interest | Comments |
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| Meldshal42 (talk · contribs) | Interested in all earthquakes, especially 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and more. | |
| Black Tusk (talk · contribs) | Interested in volcanic and tectonic earthquake zones in Canada, especially the Anahim hotspot and the 1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake. | |
| Tenmei (talk · contribs) | Interested in earthquakes and associated tsunami in Japan. | |
| RapidR (talk · contribs) | Have a general interest in earthquakes that occur around the world, though I am most interested in topics related to California and the UK. | |
| TheFEARgod (talk · contribs) | Interested in all notable earthquakes | Initial creator of the Template:Earthquake |
| Cyclonebiskit (talk · contribs) | Interested major 21st century earthquakes. | Created List of 2008 Sichuan earthquake aftershocks page. |
| Editorofthewiki (talk · contribs) | Interested in somewhat major 20th century earthquakes in developing countries. | Created 1992 Nicaragua earthquake page, a GA. Am willing to help if you need a map of an earthquake. |
| AstroHurricane001 (talk · contribs) | Main interests: Updating and improving new information on recent earthquakes. | Frequently updated new earthquake information, inculding aftershocks and death toll, added the image for 2008 El Calvario earthquake and improved the article, done some earthquake-related updating and template creation on interwikis. |
| Mikenorton (talk · contribs) | Interested in the underlying causes and mechanics of earthquakes | Created Focal mechanism and Supershear earthquake pages |
| RyRy5 (talk · contribs) | Mostly baseball. But for earthquake related things, mostly earthquakes that have a lot of history to them. I mostly would like to create new earthquake related articles, and then nominate them for WP:DYK at Template talk:DYK. | If you need any earthquake that you think has a lot of history to it, ask me to create it. |
| Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk · contribs) | Interested in all significant earthquakes. | Created articles like February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, 1999 Chamoli earthquake, 1997 Jabalpur earthquake, 2003 Boumerdès earthquake all appeared in the DYK section in main page. |
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[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list any new earthquake or seismology articles here if you would like to bring them to this WikiProject's attention:
- 1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake, Canada's largest earthquake recorded by seismometers. Black Tusk 23:09, 03 June 2008 (UTC)
- 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, neglected 9th most destructive earthquake --TheFEARgod (Ч) 10:15, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
- 1992 Nicaragua earthquake, strongest earthquake to hit Nicaragua since the famous 1972 one in which Roberto Clemente was killed, currently at both GAC and DYK? I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed] 22:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2007 Guatemala earthquake, needs serious attention, or else it should be nominated for deletion. RapidR (talk) 13:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake, a 7.3 earthquake, Canada's strongest onshore earthquake recorded. Black Tusk 21:10, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- Coalinga, California earthquake, a 6.5 earthquake, currently nominated for WP:DYK at Template talk:DYK. -- RyRy5 (talk) 20:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
- 1922 Chile-Argentina Border earthquake, a mag. 8.5 that caused a 9 meter tidal wave and cost 5-25 million U.S. dollars. ~Meldshal42 01:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] User-created location maps
2008 Sichuan earthquake
1920 Gansu earthquake
1948 Ashgabat earthquake
2003 Bam earthquake
1999 İzmit earthquake
1963 Skopje earthquake
