User talk:Egor Shustoff

March 2013

Hello, I'm Dawnseeker2000. Your recent edit to the page Template:Earthquakes in 2008 appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Dawnseeker2000 17:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please

Do not add incorrect information to the articles or templates. This is the earthquake that you're referring to and, as you can see, the magnitude is listed as 6.3. [1] Dawnseeker2000 18:10, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I don't actually think you're deliberately adding incorrect information. After reading a bit further down in the article that you linked on my talk page, I saw that the intensity was listed for several cities regarding that earthquake. These reports are based on several scales, and in that part of the world the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale is used, and you may have misunderstood the number 7.5 for the city of Baikalsk to be a magnitude measurement (these numbers are not the same thing). What they're saying is that the observed intensity (as determined by people, not instruments) was 7 and a half on that intensity scale. It's not a magnitude scale. The magnitude, as reported by the USGS, was 6.3 (quite a ways off from 9.0 (I have no idea where you got that number)).

An earthquake of that magnitude may or may not be considered notable on the English wiki, but adding a link on a non-existent article on an already crowded template might not be the best thing to do. If you have any questions feel free to ask on my talk page, and welcome to the English Wikipedia. Dawnseeker2000 18:39, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]