Template:Did you know nominations/1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake

1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake
Created/expanded by Mikenorton (talk). Self nom at 20:23, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that the occurrence of the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake just thirty minutes after the 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake was probably just coincidence?


 * Article is new at ~2500 chars
 * Is neutral, cited inline, no obvious copyvio
 * While there are only 3 sources, they seem sufficient


 * Hook is short enough (127 chars) and is interesting
 * No image


 * Issues:
 * Nominator needs to fulfill QPQ
 * I cannot see that there was a "significant component of left-lateral strike-slip faulting". It is mentioned, but I do not see where it says that it was significant.
 * The first sentence of #Earthquake characteristics needs work, mainly with the clause "published the following year" being so far from the word analysis. Maybe mention the publish time in another sentence?

Holding this until the issues are resolved, but overall a nice little article. Chris857 (talk) 03:15, 1 April 2012 (UTC)


 * The Okal source says on page 278 "these authors proposed a left-lateral strike-slip motion oriented ~30&deg; NE at the eastern edge of the Rat Island block. An earthquake on 1966 July 4 in the Amchitka Pass has precisely this mechanism (Stauder 1968a). It may be speculative to extrapolate this general motion to the inferred hypocentre of the 1906 event, but we cannot fail to notice that it is in agreement with the large strike-slip component of mechanism I (the preferred mechanism, see page 274)". I've changed the article text to 'large', as used in the source. I've also tweaked the sentence about the publication of the seismograms. Hopefully that's sufficient. Mikenorton (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks good, so this can pass once QPQ is met. Chris857 (talk) 16:56, 1 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Reviewed Soedjatmoko . Mikenorton (talk) 20:58, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Ready to go. Chris857 (talk) 21:33, 1 April 2012 (UTC)