Talk:1979 Imperial Valley earthquake

New material & reorganization
Even last year it was clear there was more to add here, but I ran out of juice back then and just getting back to it now. Added more detail on the aftershocks and damage plus added another paragraph to clarify the unusually high pga reading (couldn't just leave that high number in the infobox w/ no explanation).

Some other work was done to unify the refs, just in case someday going for a good article. I thought twice about doing this, since I was focused mainly on adding material and cleaning up some of my own overly wordy text from last year (I actually trimmed some down with this add too), and didn't necessarily want to mess with Mikenorton's text. But I did relocate or reuse some (text that was in the body is in the lead now, for example), plus I formatted the refs in a uniform way by doing first initial and last name and dropped the accessdate field on the journal articles.

Also going to up this to a B-class. It was already there, but last spring when I did the assessment sweep I think I was too cautious with some of the WP Earthquake articles and went with C when a handful could have gone up to B. This has got to be one of the nicest earthquake articles to work on. Really enjoyed doing the research. Dawnseeker2000  02:20, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Intro section
The introductory section seems a bit long. The third paragraph in particular (regarding the May 1940 earthquake) contains no direct information about the topic of this article. Should the information in this paragraph be somewhere else? Is there a way to state directly how the 1940 earthquake pertains to the 1979 event? Also, I think the last sentence, "Four of the region's known strike-slip faults and one additional newly discovered normal fault all broke the surface during the earthquake.," refers to the 1940 event. But the use of 'the earthquake' in the introductory section should really refer to the topic earthquake, not to some other event.Elriana (talk) 21:48, 12 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Dropped the material about the 1940 event, but left the mention of the multiple faults where slip was observed because they're mentioned in the article. Thanks for the tips, Dawnseeker2000  00:47, 13 June 2015 (UTC)