Talk:List of earthquakes in 2015/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Map is Messed up

Does anyone know why the map for this article is causing the epicenters to be displaced? The maps for previous years have been very accurate and then all of a sudden this year everything is out of place even though the latitudes and longitudes put in are accurate. Stormchaser89 (talk) 4:18, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Stormchaser89, I am assuming this fixed the problem? Frietjes (talk) 17:57, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes that definitely fixed it, how was that done? Stormchaser89 (talk) 8:14, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Stormchaser89, not sure what you are asking. are you asking (1) why did removing that line fix it? or (2) why does extraneous text in that field screw up the map? or (3) why did someone add extraneous text to the map? the answers are (1) one of the features of html, (2) we aren't scrubbing the input, (3) vandalism or mistake. if you want to know more about how the location map module works, you can ask on the talk page or someone like User:‎Jackmcbarn. note that it's not just stray text, but also extra newlines. Frietjes (talk) 20:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:Location map+ and Template:Location map~ are very fragile in the presence of extraneous input. There's no practical way to keep this from happening with those templates. If that's a concern, it should either be switched to Template:Location map many or to a data module like Module:Lebanese Insurgency detailed map. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Offshore

What do you consider offshore or not ? I thought it was "at a point into the sea". Or do you refer to the country when it struck a point inside internal territorial waters?Wykx (talk) 06:39, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

I removed "offshore" each time it happened inside territorial waters. Wykx (talk) 21:13, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Complaint about undone revision of DRC deaths

Please do not undo such an edit, for it had a source. Now help me find which revision to undo, thanksPubserv (talk) 19:00, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, what is the problem? The death toll has been revised from 3 deaths to 1 death because two children were killed in a fire prior to the earthquake as explained in the source article (in French). Wykx (talk) 20:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Groningen

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck the Dutch province of Groningen today. Is this includable? Mjroots (talk) 21:01, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello, no because "Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason." Wykx (talk) 22:26, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

I was thinking of the "some other reason" bit. Rare for the Netherlands and some damage caused. However, this isn't my area of expertise so will defer to those more knowledgeable than me on the subject. Mjroots (talk) 06:08, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Chile overflow

I notice that in the aftermath of the great earthquake which struck Chile, there has been a major spike in the number of Chilean earthquakes. Perhaps something could be done about this? Thanks. Dustin (talk) 22:16, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

In September, we have only one more >6 earthquakes than in May. To me it illustrates also the impact of a magnitude 8 earthquake. For the time being, I would keep it like this. It would also keep the full chronological order. Wykx (talk) 05:29, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Events with light injuries and magnitude under 6.0

If you're interested, please comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Earthquakes#Lists of earthquakes. Thanks, Dawnseeker2000 19:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

6.7 brazil

how do you know its an aftershock of the 7.6 in peru?--193.163.223.128 (talk) 20:35, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Well, because it occurred in the vicinity of the two magnitude 7.6 earthquakes soon after they occurred. So its probably an aftershock ThE~fUtUrE~2014 (talk) 10:24, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

About it being too soon to create this article.. in 2014 nov/oct

You never know if there would be earthquakes in 2015.. anything could happen.. a black hole causing earth's destruction, jesus coming, etc..--193.163.223.128 (talk) 20:39, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Question

Why was this earthquake listed? [1] The Mercalli intensity is listed as I (Not Felt). Dawnseeker2000 03:59, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I've tagged the article as "too long" because it contains many unnecessary events. No one reading an encyclopedia expects to find entries that have absolutely no consequences. I will tell you this: People are interested in these things, but not in an encyclopedia. As consumers of information, we have many fantastic organizations that are doing a much better job at listing light and moderate events than we are. At some point, the editors that have been working to add these events will realize the fruitless results of their time and effort spent. I'd like to see this article, and others in the series, greatly reduced in length to only include notable events. Dawnseeker2000 04:12, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Discussion is already ongoing here: [2] and concerns all years.

That discussion isn't complete because you never clarified how many of the listed earthquakes (like this one) affect people, places, and things. It's OK to improve how we do things here. Dawnseeker2000 16:15, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I gave my point of view which is: 'A listing based on the effect of the shock implies that countries that are well prepared to earthquakes as well as places in the middle of nowhere will not appear anymore. It won't be representative of where earthquake occur. This is a human-centric vision.' My suggestions would perhaps be to group some aftershocks together in order to reduce the length. If you are interested in big earthquakes of this year which affected people, see [3] Wykx 20:23, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Our readers are smart enough to know that earthquakes occur all around the world all the time. They don't need us to tell them that. I'll bring this up again in the new year. Dawnseeker2000 20:50, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Checking in here on the third day of January. Although this was brought up at WikiProject Earthquakes, the problems with these yearly lists have not been resolved. There are aspects of the problems that haven't been discussed. I'll be tagging the rest of the 21st century lists with {{very long}} and at some point will be bringing this up again at Talk:List of earthquakes in 2016. Please leave the tags in place until the discussion is complete and the problems are resolved. Dawnseeker2000 22:37, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

OK thanks for update. We'll wait for your clarification on which aspect hasn't been discussed. Wykx 23:13, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

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Maybe remove flags?

This is not my area of expertise, but as an interested reader I find the small images of the flags distracting. If it were up to me I would remove them. --Judithcomm (talk) 10:01, 29 September 2019 (UTC)