Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Earthquakes

Earthquake article maps
I would like to discuss the kind of maps that we use as the main infobox map in our articles. For a long period we used location maps using the relief version where available. This has the advantage of showing the earthquake in the context of the country where it was located and giving some impression of the active tectonics. Most of the recent earthquake articles have instead got maps showing the location of the mainshock and subsequent aftershocks that crowd each other out and completely cover up the underlying geography. The 2024 Noto earthquake and 2023 Herat earthquakes are good examples. The 2023 Nepal earthquake shows how it used to be done. I think that looks better in the infobox, certainly better than the map currently in the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes. I propose that we go back to using location maps to show the epicentre in the infobox, restricting maps of aftershocks to the relevant section of the article. Thoughts? Mikenorton (talk) 14:51, 28 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Support, since perspective is indeed lost in these recent maps, but also support retaining the recent maps in other parts of their respective article instead. For the record, I have not been involved in uploading maps since I am not skilled in that matter. Borgenland (talk) 14:55, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support; It looks more appealing just to see the map and the epicenter, than like 100 aftershocks crowding an interactive map. Quake1234 (talk) 15:02, 28 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the input. I've been busy with some minor health issues and trying to rewrite the List of earthquakes in the Philippines as a table. I'll start making changes over the next few days to the maps as discussed above. Mikenorton (talk) 17:03, 17 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Completed, I think. Mikenorton (talk) 20:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

2024 New Jersey earthquake
The earthquake that happened today needs some attention from members of this project, who are experts in this area. An editor declined the creation of Draft:2024 New Jersey earthquake, and now someone else has recreated the article with a worse title, 2024 Lebanon, New Jersey earthquake. Albany NY (talk) 15:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * This earthquake lacks any significant impact and is therefore not notable per WP: EVENT. Mikenorton (talk) 15:41, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * There are dozens if not hundreds of news articles covering this across multiple states, and government officials are giving briefings on it. Earthquakes of this magnitude are rare in the northeastern US. --Albany NY (talk) 16:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The critical thing in WP: EVENT is enduring impact and coverage - read the guideline. Mikenorton (talk) 16:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at In the news
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:In the news, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. —Bagumba (talk) 15:39, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Expert input please
Talk:Istanbul‎ Moxy 🍁 15:57, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Suggestion for merging two lists
List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands seem to be covering the same region/area. Can someone from the project help in either merging or splitting? Thanks, --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:46, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * They're very similar and were created by the same editor at about the same time. could you explain why we have two articles? Mikenorton (talk) 21:01, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I note that this issue was raised on that user's talk page more than two years ago - there was no response. Mikenorton (talk) 20:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * A lot of the entries aren't remotely notable so if we trimmed away those, the list would probably be short enough to merge into List of earthquakes in the Caribbean. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:21, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've made a suggestion to trim the Puerto Rico list at the article's talk page. I propose that we wait to see how that looks, merge anything useful from the +Virgin islands list (which I suspect will be nothing) and then decide if it's worth keeping as a separate article. Mikenorton (talk) 09:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hm, after reducing the article, I now see that more than 20% of the events are actually around the Virgin Islands, so perhaps that is the title that we should use. Mikenorton (talk) 15:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * So the only difference between the two articles that I can see is a paragraph in the one with the Virgin Islands that appears to be a COPYVIO of one of the sources. I've gone ahead and replaced the List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with the text from the much reduced List of earthquakes in Puerto Rico, replacing that text with a redirect. I've removed a couple of earthquakes that are regarded as "non-existent" by McCann et al. (2010). I think that I'm done for now. What remains is I think worth having as a standalone article. Mikenorton (talk) 19:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * thank you very much for fixing that list. Much appreciated!! --Funandtrvl (talk) 00:35, 15 May 2024 (UTC)