User:Dora the Axe-plorer

I'm in the Bay.

I go by he/him pronouns. My name isn't Dora. I used to view TV shows (like Dora) daily during my childhood. I've since grown past those years. The Universe decided, a little too early into my life, that I was too old for Dora and introduced me to slasher. At eight, I went from watching a children's animated cartoon series to teenage campers gutted by a goaltender-mask-wearing maniac. Slasher took me into literature and writing; I wrote short horror fiction in my free time. My tutors seem to love some of it. I wouldn't be the kind of person I am today if not for my childhood and the username is my way of paying homage to Saturday night TV programs.

My interest is rather a niche; you could infer from my >20K edits. I mainly improve or create earthquake-related articles. I don't have a formal education qualification in geology or seismology. My interest developed over my slasher years (it had no influence) after feeling a few earthquakes back home in Myanmar in late 2012. I was a pre-teen, primary education kid, so I didn't understand anything, other than "the ground shook". Nevertheless, that was a mind-blowing experience. After gaining a basic idea about plate tectonics and earthquakes in high school geography classes, this interest really started kicking.

I joined Wikipedia in late July 2020 with the intention of making minor edits to the project. I had no plans of becoming an active contributor mainly because I didn't know how editing works. About a month later, I created my first article, an interesting 1946 doubled mainshock earthquake in Myanmar. I followed up by covering additional Burmese earthquake articles (1912 Maymyo, 1839 Ava, 1930 Bago, 1988 Myanmar–India, 1988 Lancang–Gengma, 2003 Taungdwingyi). Since then, I've been very active in the project.

My works

 * User:Dora the Axe-plorer/Started articles
 * WikiProject Earthquakes/Requested articles

Articles I've expanded

 * 1905 Kangra earthquake
 * 1918 Shantou earthquake
 * 1994 Bolivia earthquake
 * 1822 Valparaíso earthquake
 * 1737 Kamchatka earthquake (78.9% authorship)
 * 1834 Java earthquake
 * 2021 Haiti earthquake
 * 2021 East Java earthquake
 * 2021 Guerrero earthquake
 * Lembang Fault
 * 1975 Bagan earthquake
 * 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake
 * 1992 Murindó earthquake (91.7% authorship)
 * 1114 Marash earthquake
 * 2023 Herat earthquakes
 * East Anatolian Fault (81.2% authorship)
 * Sagaing Fault (88% authorship)

Good Articles

 * 1959 Coatzacoalcos earthquake
 * 1902 Turkestan earthquake
 * 1977 Bob–Tangol earthquake
 * 1920 Xalapa earthquake
 * 1994 Mascara earthquake
 * 1997 Bojnurd earthquake (nominated by SamBroGaming)
 * 1930 Bago earthquake
 * 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake (nominated)
 * 1968 Borrego Mountain earthquake (nominated by SamBroGaming)
 * 2010 Damghan earthquake (nominated)
 * 2004 Les Saintes earthquake (nominated)
 * 2022 Sumatra earthquake
 * "Slut!" (nominated by Ippantekina)
 * So Long, London (nominated by Ippantekina)

In The News

 * 2020 Aegean Sea earthquake
 * 2021 West Sulawesi earthquake
 * 2021 Hualien train derailment
 * 2021 Haiti earthquake
 * 2021 Balochistan earthquake
 * 2021 Semeru eruption
 * Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021
 * 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
 * 2022 Sumatra earthquake
 * 2022 Fukushima earthquake
 * China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735
 * Tara Air Flight 197
 * June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
 * 2022 Luzon earthquake
 * 2022 Luding earthquake
 * 2022 Papua New Guinea earthquake
 * 2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack
 * Seoul Halloween crowd crush
 * October 2022 Mogadishu bombings
 * 2022 West Java earthquake
 * 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
 * 2023 Marrakesh–Safi earthquake
 * 2023 Herat earthquakes

Did You Know?

 * 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami
 * April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami
 * 1994 Mascara earthquake (nominated by Onegreatjoke)

On This Day

 * 1761 Lisbon earthquake
 * 1852 Banda Sea earthquake
 * 1638 Calabrian earthquakes
 * 1905 Kangra earthquake
 * 1695 Linfen earthquake

Useful things for myself:
 * Featured article candidates
 * Peer review/Guidelines
 * Template:FAC peer review sidebar
 * Peer review/Volunteers
 * Peer review/1920 Xalapa earthquake/archive1

Resources

 * List of online newspaper archives

Communication

 * See infobox for email


 * Discord: Reventador#9575