Talk:Lists of earthquakes

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)


 * 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)

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:  From 1978 Tabas earthquake:  From 1967 Caracas earthquake:  From Great Hanshin earthquake:  

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)

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

Tunisia
A larger earthquake might have occurred in 859:

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)

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 5.8 on August 6, 1983, referencing the USGS catalog. The only corresponding event in the ISC Bulletin: event catalogue search was a 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)


 * 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)