Template:Did you know nominations/1966 Toro earthquake

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:55, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

1966 Toro earthquake

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... that the 1966 Toro earthquake could be felt in six countries, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Kenya?

Created/expanded by Qrfqr (talk), Mikenorton (talk). Nominated by Carabinieri (talk) at 23:50, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

I was going to nominate this with the following hook that I now propose as an alt.

ALT1

... that following the 1966 Toro earthquake, more people died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of a large aftershock than died in the original earthquake? Mikenorton (talk) 15:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

An interesting article, new enough, long enough (1940 characters of "readable prose"), with credible online sources, in general satisfies Wikipedia's policy for DYK eligibility. I would rather choose the second hook: it's more "captivating", despite the mentioning of all the countries affected by the earthquake in the 1st hook. It just needs a bit more work to do regarding sources' pages especially when citing the number of deaths of the hook. Then it will be ready to go. Empathictrust (talk) 23:25, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

I've added the requested page numbers, the UNESCO report was rather long. For the Foster and Jackson paper I've given two page numbers, the first has a table that gives this earthquake an 'event number' and another where the earthquake itself is discussed, but only as an event number. Mikenorton (talk) 08:00, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Pretty fine, DYK is ready for the ALT1! Just one comment: in the table of page 429, for the Event 660320 (Ruwenzori earthquake), there's a 7.0 moment magnitude [1], while Zana & Tanaka's 1981 review at the end of page 120, in "The Mt. Ruwenzori Region" section gives M 6.7-7 [2] as does the National Geophysical Data Center (magnitude 6.75-7), but we're keeping the precise value of M_w 6.8 of the most up to date (2009) source [3] on page 66 (as cited in the article). Empathictrust (talk) 15:10, 7 May 2012 (UTC)