Talk:October 2020 Alaska Peninsula earthquake

Merge with the July article?
If this quake is an aftershock of the July 7.8, wouldn't it make more sense to merge it with the July article? Both this, and the other article are relatively small, and I think that the information can be merged just fine. Does anyone have ideas? GyozaDumpling (talk) 03:02, 20 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Agree with that proposal, we don't normally have separate articles for aftershocks unless they have their own significant impacts (damage and deaths) and not always even then. Mikenorton (talk) 08:37, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Agree, because both earthquakes are related to each other. I disagree that is an aftershock, it is too big, and occurred on a different faultline. But that is beside the point, the earthquakes are related, and perhaps should be put into one umbrella article describing both events as two main events. For now it seems the October earthquake may have caused a much larger impact on alaskan localities than the other one did, just because the epicenter was closer to land, so made a larger impact on the region than the july one. Earthquake Maestro (talk) 20:12, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * To quote the ANSS comcat source "This event is an aftershock of the M 7.8 earthquake that occurred on July 22, 2020." Aftershocks are not necessarily on the same structure or of the same type, even if that's relatively rare. Mikenorton (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * that's true. But still, it is a 7.6. I imagine in the near future they will not classify this as an aftershock, and will instead classify it as a separate event. Similar to the Landers/Big Bear events in 1993. Bu regardless I think they should be put under the same title because they are more geographically related, something like "2020 Simeonof Island Earthquakes" Earthquake Maestro (talk) 00:49, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * When would it be opportune to begin a merge? GyozaDumpling (talk) 16:20, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * A week has now passed and it doesn't look like there's going to be any new information on possible impacts forthcoming, so I would say now is as good a time as any. Mikenorton (talk) 10:50, 26 October 2020 (UTC)