Talk:List of earthquakes in New Zealand

Earthquakes resulting in fatalities
Is this section necessary? It's just duplicating already present information. Each table can easily be sorted by number of fatalities as it is. Ollieinc ( talk ) 08:06, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, yes, it's duplicating information. But that info is distributed across a variety of tables. So a case can be made for having this additional table. It would be nice, however, if could check their work for links to disambiguation pages before saving work (I count three dab links).  Schwede  66  17:13, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Oops, ill fix up those disambiguation pages if nobody else has already. As for if it is necessary, I think it is. Many people, including me come to pages on wikipedia looking for specifics such as death toll. Having the earthquakes spread across 6 other sections of information meant that you could not sort the events by death toll either, which was a big nuisance. - Having a section about death toll is completely acceptable too, as this article page is about List of earthquakes in New Zealand, and listing them by death toll seemed like I was adding good, relevant information to the article rather than taking any away (and also to simplify that search for anyone who wants to know about the death toll).--CrashesToAshes (talk) 02:56, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

It's redundant and unnecessary. Why is everyone so obsessed with how many people die in these events anyway? Are you going to unify all the list articles that we have? Please don't do that. Dawnseeker2000  03:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Responding to Schwede66's comment from about a year and a half ago, I can reduce the list to one table. I think it'll be simpler, more presentable, and easier to use that way. Dawnseeker2000  05:21, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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Felt events
They're not notable. There are a handful of entries on this list with no real effects or consequences and the only aspect of them is thet they're "felt". What needs to happen with this list is a trim; this includes some events that have articles. Dawnseeker2000 04:45, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * They only have articles when they are notable, though.  Schwede 66  05:31, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * No, there are several New Zealand eq articles that are only "felt" events. It's the reason that I finally spoke up. Those events are also listed here. One of the main clues that there are non-notable events listed here is that the list is as long as it is. Dawnseeker2000  14:35, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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Not an earthquake catalog
There are quite a few non-notable events listed here. I'd like to remind contributors that it is not necessary to list felt events as they are not encyclopedic in nature. There is no point in trying to duplicate an earthquake catalog. A few very good catalogs exist and our readers are probably aware of their existence. We cannot do better than what those agencies are already doing. What we are interested in doing is creating encyclopedic articles and lists. That is something that we can do better than the catalogs, but this list is one of the last to be converted to all-notable content. Aside from the four largest commonwealth nations, the remainder of WP:Earthquakes country lists have been refined to include only encyclopedic content. Dawnseeker2000 03:52, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

I want to remove all non notable earthquakes
I want to remove all earthquakes that do not have their own article. Does anyone mind. Dushan Jugum (talk) 04:26, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Before seeing this talk page post I reverted an edit by another editor who removed some entries which were unsourced, on the basis that sources could almost certainly be found in print newspapers.
 * Looking at other entries in Category:Lists of earthquakes by country it seems they do include earthquakes without articles. It might be appropriate to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Earthquakes if there is any project consensus on whether these lists should contain entries without articles.- gadfium 05:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * We are on the same page, my brief check went the other way. I will do more research and get my ducks in row.Dushan Jugum (talk) 06:15, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * No established consensuses. I have no interest in making one. As such I agree with your recent reverts on the page User:gadfium, thanks. Dushan Jugum (talk) 06:21, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * There are notable earthquakes that do not have an article. In case of Christchurch, there are two: 2010 Boxing Day earthquake and the December 2011 Christchurch earthquake. It's difficult to tie notable earthquakes to a magnitude; a high magnitude event with no consequences may not be notable whereas a lower magnitude event with big consequences (e.g. the 2010 Boxing Day earthquake) may well be notable. I prefer to have notable earthquakes listed. The hard part is to come up with a system that can determine notability. As such, I do mind doing a cull of everything that does not have an article.  Schwede 66  08:28, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I think the Haowhenua earthquake c.1460 might also be appropriate for an article, as it caused significant changes to the coastline, and probably caused some deaths.- gadfium 08:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I made a quick test edit of what the page would look like with only Notable earthquakes. Dushan Jugum (talk) 02:45, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Unreferenced claim removed
I have removed the false and unreferenced claim that Large earthquakes are less common along the central Alpine Fault although this was widely believed in New Zealand until proper studies were done. See article Alpine Fault for contrary evidenceChaseKiwi (talk) 19:30, 14 May 2023 (UTC)