Talk:Slow Earthquake

Peer Review By: Ben

Your content is very in depth and seems to be very accurate. I liked the use of your figures, i found that they were helpful for understanding the main concepts, especially the figure about subducting plate geometry and the different zones of locked, transient slip, and stable slip.

There were times while reading the page that I got slightly lost and confused by all of the acronyms being used and by some very scientifically advanced sentences. For myself, I found that it was challenging to translate concepts that are very advanced from scientific papers into content that can be understood by a general audience of differing intellectual understanding. I think this is relatable to your page as well. i think if some concepts were explained a little more clearly it would allow for people who have not heard of slow earthquakes to better understand how they occur. Perhaps expanding on the different slip zones and how they relate to slow movement of subducting plates might be helpful. Additionally, it might be helpful to briefly explain how P-waves and S-waves are used and detected through the use of geophysics. Several times you give facts about magnitudes, but I was confused about what scale of magnitude this corresponds to? the richter scale perhaps? for example, your sentence ,"Tectonic LFEs are characterized by generally low magnitudes (M<3) and have frequencies peaked between 1 and 3 Hz.". I think it would be helpful if you specified what these magnitudes correspond to.

Overall, I found your page to be extremely informative, I without a doubt learned a few things that I found to be quite interesting. It was obvious that you did a great deal of research on your topic and the facts you conveyed were well structured and seem to be cited well. Benbouchard (talk) 23:18, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Peer Review By: Daniel Tamas

Your page was well written with plenty of information regarding low frequency earthquakes. Your figures are very well put together and explained, helping to support your description. The detail at which you describe each section is very good. Your information is well referenced and looks to have all the keywords linked to their own pages. You could add an extra paragraph at the very beginning mentioning all 4 major processes and events involved in slow earthquakes if you plan on titling the page Slow Earthquakes. This could be a simple disclaimer as the one you have for peer review mentioning that all 4 are involved in the main subject. However if you plan on separating Low Frequency Earthquakes, Very Low Frequency Earthquakes, and Slow Slip Events into their own discrete pages then that intro would not be needed. If they are all going to be separated considering going into more detail about the examples you gave for Very low frequency earthquakes and the slow slip events.

Firstly you should consider decreasing the amount of abbreviations used throughout your page. Using the full name “Low frequency Earthquake” and Slow Slip Event” instead of an abbreviation more often may make it flow better when reading out loud in my opinion. An example of this is in the sentence “During SSEs, LFE foci migrate….” which has two abbreviations side by side giving it less flow. Secondly consider not abbreviating The Japan Meteorological Agency to JMA and the signal to Noise ratio to SNR as you mention both only twice. Also Episodic tremor and slip abbreviated to ETS is only mentioned 3 times with the full name mentioned twice making the abbreviation somewhat unnecessary. In your first sentence of low frequency earthquakes in Cascadia you have (M>8) which is fairly obvious that is talking about magnitude, however it is the only time you don’t explicitly say magnitude with an actual number in brackets, so you may consider adding it in.

Other than that your page is very well written and will definitely help people learn about Slow Earthquakes. Good Job! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Tamas (talk • contribs) 00:53, 31 March 2017 (UTC)