Template:Did you know nominations/1983 Popayán earthquake


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The result was: promoted by Fuebaey (talk) 20:14, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

1983 Popayán earthquake

 * ... that after the 1983 Popayán earthquake resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people, the Colombian government passed new legislation relating to construction materials?
 * Reviewed: J. Fred Buzhardt

Created/expanded by Valenciano (talk). Self nominated at 08:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg I'm happy with most aspects of this DYK, including the hook, but I have noticed a couple of issues:


 * The earthquake was actually on a Thursday: 31 March 1983 was the Maundy Thursday of that year. Ref [4] states Eran las 8:13 de la mañana del Jueves Santo (It was 8.13 in the morning of Holy Thursday).  The infobox and article itself will need to be tweaked accordingly.
 * While looking through each ref, I couldn't find anything in ref [10] to support directly the sentence it relates to: Many one and two-storey buildings which were damaged had been constructed using materials which could not resist earthquakes, based on a mistaken belief that these buildings would be unaffected by any earth tremors. The material in that source does support other parts of the article, but I couldn't see anything specifically referring to construction deficiencies.


 * Other than those points, everything is fine. The article was created on 5th Dec and was nominated in time; it is of sufficient length and is not a stub; sources are of good quality; there is no unreferenced material; the article reads well; and all key points are covered.   Hassocks  5489 (Floreat Hova!)  21:22, 21 December 2014 (UTC)


 * thanks for that, I've fixed the day and the referencing issue is my bad, refs 10 and 12 needed to be swapped. That's done. Valenciano (talk) 18:03, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks for updating; now verified.   Hassocks  5489 (Floreat Hova!)  18:31, 22 December 2014 (UTC)