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This article was nominated for merging with Lists of earthquakes#Deadliest earthquakes on April 2016. The result of the discussion was Not merged.

Conflicting Dates/Links?

This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_earthquakes has the Aleppo earthquake occurring 11 October 1138... ???

Also, the Header Link on this page says "Deadliest earthquakes" but links to a page of Historical Famines? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.243.63.16 (talk) 03:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The date of the 1138 Aleppo earthquake is consistent on this page, the historical earthquakes page and the specific article on the earthquake - all show 11 October 1138. The header is linked as "List of natural disasters by death toll#Deadliest_earthquakes", talking you directly to that section of the article. I don't see any issues here. Mikenorton (talk) 08:42, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Lists of earthquakes

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Lists of earthquakes's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "PAGER-CAT":

From 1970 Tonghai earthquake: USGS (4 September 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
From 1978 Tabas earthquake: USGS (September 4, 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
From 1967 Caracas earthquake: USGS (4 September 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
From Great Hanshin earthquake: USGS (September 4, 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 15:00, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kazakhstan

No mention is made of Kazakhstan, but thee Almaty wik page lists significant quakes. Kdammers (talk) 03:45, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisia

A larger earthquake might have occurred in 859: [1]

Just leaving it here for now, won't add it due to its magnitude not being given. Alpha Piscis Austrini (talk) 12:29, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chile 9.5 magnitude 18 century B.C.

A new earthquake which could be added to the list

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm2996

1983 earthquake in Poland

In Largest earthquakes by country/territory, the event for Poland was a mb  5.8 on August 6, 1983, referencing the USGS catalog. The only corresponding event in the ISC Bulletin: event catalogue search was a M_L  2.8/3.5 quake in the same area and time. Quick searches in English and Polish couldn't fork up anything about this event. I now suspect this is a misreported event by the USGS that shouldn't be included.--Dora the Axe-plorer (explore the morgue) 14:17, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it - I checked with the SHARE European Earthquake Catalogue (SHEEC) 1900-2006 and the NOAA/NCEI database but found nothing. Mikenorton (talk) 15:20, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2003 Boumerdès earthquake in Algeria

This event that happen in May of 2003 is not mentioned in the article. For reference there is a wikipedia page on the same 2003 Boumerdès earthquake Please consider updating the main page. Sbliecer (talk) 11:01, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Flags

The flags in (at least some of) the lists are not period-accurate, and instead are the modern flags of the countries listed. 69.116.147.54 (talk) 03:54, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1960 deadliest

The entry for 1960 obviously should be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake 109.144.21.212 (talk) 15:38, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

1960 deadliest - my mistake, please delete

I stupidly mistook biggest for deadliest. Please remove my Talk entries. 109.144.21.212 (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Map centered on the Pacific Ring of Fire?

The present map seems centered on Europe/Altantic (a Euro-centric perspective is no surprise). But it would make more geological sense to have it centered on the Pacific Ocean. That way, the five largest dots would make a near-complete ring delineating the "Pacific Ring of Fire". Anybody have the means to create such a map? Titus III (talk) 18:58, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Map mistake

On the earthquakes 1900-2017 map,the ashgabat earthquake 1948october 6 at 1:17 in the morning is missing UnsungHistory (talk) 19:59, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Number of earthquakes m > 4 per country by year (suitability for inclusion)

Is this new section encyclopedic? Why or why not? Dawnseeker2000 17:31, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This section does not seem encyclopedic. It’s an arbitrary slice of a huge database. Personally, I could make an argument for putting the threshold at M 5, while others might say M 3. The raw numbers each year don’t mean much, either. Why list those years? Why only those years? Are readers supposed to infer trends? That seems like a bad idea.

I believe the goal of the section is to show where earthquakes are most frequent, which is a somewhat different picture than one gets from the list of largest earthquake by country. Perhaps a table of *average* number of earthquakes per year would be more appropriate. (In fact, the stat could be added to the table with largest EQ by country rather than requiring a separate table.) An average rate would give a more comprehensive picture than raw data, and would also need to be updated much less frequently. Elriana (talk) 09:09, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The map of Indonesia in this section is also awful. There are too many points for the icons to be so large and the iconography is highly impractical for rendering this information. I am particularly annoyed by this lack of readability because people have been making maps of exactly this kind of data in a wide variety of easily-readable icon/label schemes for decades. I appreciate the coolness of having a dataset one can click through on a map, but this is not an appropriate place for a map with clickable links to the USGS data page for every earthquake in Indonesia since 1900. Elriana (talk) 09:21, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your thoughts. Dawnseeker2000 17:10, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reordering?

It seems odd that the Largest EQ by Year and the Deadliest EQ by Year sections come before the overall largest and deadliest EQ sections. Is there a reason the ‘by year’ tables wouldn’t be subsections of the Largest and Deadliest sections themselves? Elriana (talk) 10:26, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m also not convinced the ‘by year’ lists are necessary here. Any comments for and against their inclusion and positioning? Why aren’t they separate lists that are linked from this list of lists? Particularly since every year’s list page already includes the largest earthquakes from that year. Elriana (talk) 10:29, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Note there is a user, Applaused, that's adding what I feel is a very unnecessary list citing a source I'm less familiar with. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 11:42, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]