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Welcome to WikiProject Earthquakes, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving the coverage of earthquake-related articles. This WikiProject aims to enhance information on earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, tectonic plates, and related articles. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

Scope

 * All articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles. Earthquake impact on structures is covered in earthquake engineering.

Please feel free to join the project and expand its scope in any necessary directions.

Related WikiProjects

 * Parent: WikiProject Disaster management
 * Children: WikiProject Australian history/Earthquake and landslide disasters

Departments

 * List of

Review
The review department of the Earthquakes WikiProject is the project's main forum for conducting detailed reviews—both formal and informal—of particular articles and other content within its scope.

Assessment
In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, the assessment department have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the WP Earthquakes project banner on an article's talk page:

Add articles to the scope by adding and fill in the parameters.

Portal
The portal department attempts to serve as a nexus for all Earthquakes-related Wikipedia materials.

Featured pictures
As of April 2009, five featured pictures have been given a WikiProject Earthquakes notice. Featured pictures are the most encyclopaedic and high quality images Wikipedia has to offer.

DYKs this month
The following articles appeared on the Did you know section in the main page in July, 2024:

See the DYK subpage for more information.

Barnstar
The Earthquakes WikiProject has its own barnstar! just use ! Designed by LordSunday

Newsletter
See here.

Open tasks

 * Add the WikiProject Earthquakes message box WP Earthquakes to talk pages of articles within the scope of this project, including appropriate assessments if needed.
 * Monitor Category:Earthquakes articles needing attention.
 * Add references to all earthquake-related articles.
 * Expand the list of earthquakes, it is very belittled.
 * Bring 1992 Nicaragua earthquake to FA status.
 * Expand a significant earthquake..the 1908 Messina earthquake
 * Bring Anahim hotspot to FA status.
 * Bring 2003 Bam earthquake to FA staus.
 * Bring 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake to FA status.
 * Create an article on the Tokai Earthquake - http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake_tokai/info.html

Feel free to add on to this "to-do" list.

Collaboration of the Month
The current COTM is to get List of earthquakes in Iran to FL status, by May 25. Propose an article!

Guidelines

 * See Guide to writing better articles.

You can add yourself to the participants here WikiProject Earthquakes/Participants

FA Taskforce
The Earthquakes WikiProject has started a task force for users experienced wth promoting featured articles. Please contact Ceranthor for more information.

Participants of FA Taskforce

 * —Ceran  ♦ ♦ (speak) 02:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC) - Featured 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake, and various other articles.
 * I'm an Editor of the wiki[citation needed] 22:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC) I wrote Lazare Ponticelli and 1964 Gabon coup d'etat is up for FAC.

New articles this month

 * Isoseismal map - a bit surprised to see this was missing Mikenorton (talk) 19:25, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 1783 Calabrian earthquakes - intriguing sequence of five events Mikenorton (talk) 21:04, 8 October 2009 (UTC)