Talk:2016 Canterbury Earthquake

Proposed merge with 2016 Hanmer Springs earthquake
The two articles document the same disaster. My Chemistry romantic (talk) 12:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed we need a merge. However, I think this is the better title for the topic of the major earthquake, as there were multiple large earthquakes all going off at the same time. The largest of which was removed from Geonet moments after it happened, and wasn't near hammer springs, but over toward the coast.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  12:20, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... This is the better title for the topic, the major earthquake didn't happen near hammer springs, In fact, I don't think they were the same earthquake. I saw the 7.4 come up on geonet (before it was taken down again), and then the hamner one came up later at 6.6. We actually need both these articles. InsertCleverPhraseHere  12:24, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I suspect what happened is that the 7.4-7.5 was removed from Geonet (i saw it while it was up there for a couple minutes afterward) and people are therefore confusing the big one with the 6.6 in Hanmer (which is the biggest one currently up on Geonet. USGS reported it as a 7.5. These are different earthquakes, though news sources are confusing the two because of the aforementioned removal from Geonet.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  12:39, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Either that, or, given the spread of longitude latitude data of the Geonet reference to the '6.6' the whole of the Hope fault let loose and it just ruptured with different magnitudes in different places. in which case, the epicentre likely isn't Hanmer, and we are better off with a generic title.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  12:41, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Screw it, delete this page, we can move the other one later as neither of these are likely to be the final title anyway.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  12:47, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I've redirected it, for now. Gabbe (talk) 12:48, 13 November 2016 (UTC)�
 * Given that the USGS have changed their location to not anywhere near Hanmer, I would suggest reversing the titles actually.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  12:53, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Geonet just updated their listing too. I moved the target page to '2016 North Canterbury earthquake" as that seems better than both (and to differentiate it from the other Canterbury earthquakes recently.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  13:00, 13 November 2016 (UTC)