User:Btareen/2018 Fiji earthquake

Lead Section
The lead section successfully introduces and hooks the audience about the 2018 Fiji Earthquakes as it specifies the date, time, and the location of the epicenter. The major sections in the article are also included in the lead section. However, some of the information in this section was overly detailed, making it not concise.

Content
All the information in the article is relevant to the topic and does not deal with any of Wikipedia’s equity gaps. The information provided is all up-to-date as the article is continuously updated.

Tone and Balance
The tone of the article is very neutral, meaning the objective of the article is to inform rather than to persuade the audience to a certain side. More importantly, the article instructs the readers what happened on the days when Fiji was hit by the earthquakes.

Sources and References
While most of the sources involved in this article are from news outlets that were reporting on the earthquake at the time, there are two letters from a year after the earthquake that provide quite a bit of information, one of which was cited many times due to its abundance of information. From what I have found digging on google for various sources regarding the earthquake in Fiji, the author of this wikipedia article found two good sources but the rest were just news reports with little knowledge on the actual earthquake information. One of the sources (citation #7) was a letter that had 5 authors to construct this well written piece about the earthquake. Overall, there were really only two good sources that they found but really only cited one of them in the article.

Organization and Writing Quality
The article is well written and easy to read for anyone who wants to learn about the 2018 Fiji earthquake. This article doesn’t have any spelling errors. It is well organized as it explains both earthquakes that hit Fiji, the day/time, magnitude, depth, etc.

Images and Media
The images used in this article shows where on a map the earthquake was located and how far it traveled. The images are well captioned because it details the intensity of the earthquake and gives a key for where the epicenter was with a star. All of them adhere to Wikipedia’s copyright regulations as the majority of the images were taken and cited from an open source. The images are laid out in an appealing manner, enticing the readers to ponder about what information the images provide.

Talk Page Discussion
There is no talk between people on the talk page however, it is graded as a start class article as well as a low-importance article for two projects, the first project is the Fiji project and the second is the earthquake project.

Overall Impression
To sum up this article, I would say it does not deserve to be as low as a start class article but at the same time does need quite a bit more work to be any higher than a C-class article. This article is basically a news report of the earthquake just with a little bit more information than a normal news article would provide. However, the information provided is enough for someone to understand the basics of what happened during the 2018 Fiji earthquakes.

Earthquake History of Fiji

 * 1953 Suva Earthquake - This earthquake occurred off the coast of Suva, Fiji and was a very notable natural disaster in the history of Fiji, not only because of the earthquake itself but also the tsunami that arose shortly after the earthquake.
 * 1979 Qamea Earthquake- This earthquake happened on November 17th, 1979 with a magnitude of 6.9. There was major damage to buildings on neighboring islands. Also a landslide on the island of Qamea.
 * Plate Tectonic History of Fiji - Fiji is between the Pacific plate and the Indo-Australian plate.
 * Initially, the two plates subducted, which resulted in the Pacific plate falling beneath the Indo-Australian plate. The subduction of the two plates resulted in the formation of a volcanic island arc called the Vityaz Arc. Twelve million years later, a similar event occurred. The Pacific plate converged towards the Indo-Australian plate at a north westward motion. Similarly, another volcanic island arc was formed near Fiji. The north westward motion continued to occur creating lots of stress on the plate boundary. Consequently, the Vityaz Arc was broken and the Fiji fracture zone was created. Recently, the movement of the plates created a subduction zone on the New Hebrides Trench. However, the Indo-Australian plate was pulled below the Pacific plate. The motion of these plates created a new volcanic island arc called the New Hebrides Arc. Eventually, the New Hebrides Arc and the Fiji islands started to diverge, which created the North Fiji Basin.
 * The Mineral Resources Department (MRD) of Fiji categorized earthquakes into the three main zones: northeastern, northern, and western. There are also other zones that describe minor, scattered earthquakes that did not fit in the three main zones

August 19

 * The epicenter was far from the population, located 167 miles to the east of Levuka, Fiji, and 275 miles to the west of Neiafu, Tonga. Notably, it is in the ring of fire, the zone with a prevalence for earthquakes.