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[[File:ADBC Branch in BeiChuan after earthquake.jpg|thumb|right|Damage from [[2008 Sichuan earthquake]]]]

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

==Scope==
All articles about [[earthquake]]s, [[aftershock]]s, [[seismology]], [[seismologist]]s, [[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==
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* Parent: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology|WikiProject Geology]]
* Children: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Earthquake and landslide disasters|WikiProject Australian history/Earthquake and landslide disasters]]
==Departments==
* List of {{subpages}}

==Guidelines==
* [[Wikipedia:Notability (earthquakes)|Earthquake notability guidelines]]
* [[Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles|Guide to writing better articles]].
* Where possible, use {{tl|M}} for reporting Earthquake magnitudes rather than subscripts, for example <nowiki>{{M|L}} instead of ML or M<sub>L</sub></nowiki>. Subscripts are required in citations that already use templates and <nowiki><math></nowiki> markup is used when magnitudes are part of a larger mathematical expression. 

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=====Featured pictures=====
As of March 2011, a total of '''six''' featured pictures have been given a WikiProject Earthquakes notice. Generally, featured pictures are of high-quality and among the most encyclopedic images Wikipedia has to offer.

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File:San Francisco in ruin edit2.jpg|Ruins from 1906 San Francisco earthquake
File:Agassiz statue Mwc00715.jpg|Damaged statue from 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Image:Sfearthquake3b.jpg|Wreckage of the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]
Image:2004-tsunami.jpg|The [[tsunami]] following the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] comes onshore, surging towards a group of citizens and tourists
Image:2004 Indonesia Tsunami edit.gif|The waves of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake's tsunami travel all around the world
File:Haitian national palace earthquake.jpg|The Haitian Presidential Palace destroyed by the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
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==Assessment==
In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, [[/Assessment|assessments]] have been implemented.  These are generated using the optional ''class'' and ''importance'' parameters in the {{tl|WP Earthquakes}} project banner on an article's talk page: 

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Add articles to the scope by adding <nowiki>{{WikiProject Earthquakes|class=|importance=}}</nowiki> and fill in the parameters.
===Article alerts===
{{/Article alerts}}

==Active tasks==
*Create (at least start class) articles in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes/Requested articles]]
*Expand articles listed in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Earthquakes/Articles needing expansion]]
*Targeted GA articles
**[[1957 Farsinaj earthquake]]
**[[1979 Saint Elias earthquake]]
**[[2013 Balochistan earthquakes]] (preparing)
**[[1982 North Yemen earthquake]] (preparing)
**[[1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake]] (preparing)
**[[2007 Nevelsk earthquake]] (preparing)

===A Class Promotion===
[[1995 Neftegorsk earthquake]] needs two uninvolved editors to agree that the article meets A class standards per [[WP:A?]]

==Recently created articles==
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*[[1923 Torbat-e Heydarieh earthquake]]
*[[1733 Dongchuan earthquake]]
*[[1536 Xichang earthquake]]
*[[1738 Dangjiang earthquake]]
*[[1733 Dongchuan earthquake]]
*[[1936 Lingshan earthquake]]
*[[528 Antioch earthquake]]
*[[2024 West Java earthquake]]
*[[1958 Firuzabad earthquake]]
*[[1871–72 Quchan earthquakes]]
*[[1879 Bozqush earthquake]]
*[[2007 Nevelsk earthquake]]
*[[2024–25 Ethiopian earthquakes]]
*[[2025 Tibet earthquake]]
*[[Harvard University seismograph station]]
*[[2025 Myanmar earthquake]]
*[[2025 Istanbul earthquake]] 
*[[2002 West Papua earthquake]]
*[[2025 Cundinamarca earthquake]]
*[[2025 Callao earthquake]]

==Collaboration of the month==



==Barnstar==
WikiProject Earthquakes now has its own barnstar! Just use <nowiki>{{Earthquakes Barnstar|reason ~~~~}}</nowiki>!<small> Designed by [[User:LordSunday|LordSunday]]</small>


==FA Taskforce==
Not currently active.

==Resources==
===Wikidata===
* [[:d:Wikidata:WikiProject Geology/List of Earthquakes]] – Links to Wikidata items for all earthquake articles across the different language wikis.

===Earthquake catalogues and other databases===
There are many catalogues and databases that can be used to provide information about earthquakes when writing/improving articles. Some of the more important are listed here together with explanatory notes including how to use them, where that is not obvious.

====International databases====
*[http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/download.php ISC-GEM] was created by the [[International Seismological Centre]] to provide a reliable global reference catalogue for seismologists for earthquake in the instrumental era (from 1904). To access the catalogue, click on the link provided and download the spreadsheet – the current version is v.11.0 and covers events from 1904–2020. The first 109 lines contain information about citing the catalogue, the meaning of the fields used, information about updates etc.
*[https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/ ANSS] The [[Advanced National Seismic System]] (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog was created by the USGS and other members of ANSS to provide a repository for data from the participating organisations. It can be searched online using the link provided. [https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/comcat/data-availability.php This link] shows the data availability for each organisation – note that this includes the ISC-GEM catalogue. Covers global earthquakes from 1901 onwards and US earthquakes from 1638.
*[https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database] This online searchable database is intended to cover all significant global earthquakes from 2150 B.C. onwards.
*[https://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/index_eng.html Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through 2020)] – Originally created by Tokuji Utsu, now maintained by the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquakes in Japan. This online searchable database covers significant global earthquakes from 3000 B.C.
*[https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/PAGER_CAT_v2.zip PAGER-CAT] The Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) catalog combines several existing global catalogs in an effort to provide reliable information about each earthquake’s source and its effect. It covers large earthquakes from 1900 to 2008 and is periodically updated. It provides not only earthquake parameters but also information about casualties, number of homeless etc. It can be downloaded using the link provided. You may need to reformat the "date" column if the content appears as hashes. Don't forget to look at the [https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/PAGER_CAT_v2_readme.txt associated readme file] as the fields in the spreadsheet are not that easy to understand.

====National/Regional databases====
*[http://storing.ingv.it/cfti/cfti5/ Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy 461 B.C. – 1997 and Mediterranean Area 760 B.C. – 1500] This online searchable database is based on a paper catalogue published in 1995 by Boschi et al. as "Catalogo dei Forti Terremoti in ltalia dal 461 a.C. al 1980" (known as CFT 1 for short). Later improved and updated versions have been published and from CFTI4 they have been available online. Much of the detailed commentary is in Italian, but much of the higher level parts of the website can be viewed in English. Searching for a particular event by date gives a list and clicking on the event of choice gives a link to an "Earthquake page", dedicated to that particular event. An icon in the form of a page of text on the left hand side labelled "Comm." leads to the detailed pages on the event. Note that the magnitude of most historical earthquakes is given as M<sub>e</sub>, which stands for "equivalent magnitude", which is an estimate of the [[moment magnitude scale|moment magnitude]] based on observed shaking intensities. This catalogue is also very useful for earthquakes in the Mediterranean area before 1501.

*[https://emidius.eu/SHEEC/catalogue/ The SHARE European Earthquake Catalogue (SHEEC) 1000–1899] This online cataloque, part of the Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe (SHARE) initiative by the European Union, covers Europe, broadly defined, including Iceland and most of the Mediterranean Sea. The equivalent catalogue covering more recent events (SHEEC 1900–2006) is available for download as a spreadsheet [http://media.gfz-potsdam.de/gfz/sec26/projects/SHEEC/SHEEC_1900-2006.xls here].

*[https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/intintro.shtml Earthquake Intensity Database 1638 – 1985] This NOAA database of intensities and other earthquake information mainly from the US, its borders and territories, can be downloaded using the link provided. Despite the description provided at the link, the organisation of this database remains opaque.

*[http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/2/earthquake-catalog/ The Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Regional Earthquake – Tsuanmi Monitoring Centre] The catalogue run by the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) provides a searchable online database for earthquakes in Turkey from 1900 onwards, providing times, locations, depths and magnitudes. Additionally at [http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/2/deprem-bilgileri/buyuk-depremler/ this link] there is a list of large earthquakes from 1900 to 2014 (currently), with maximum intensities, and casualty information. At [http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/2/deprem-bilgileri/tarihsel-depremler/# this link] is a list of significant historical earthquakes from B.C. 222 to A.D. 1899, with epicentres, maximum intensities and in some cases casualty information.

*[https://seismofaults.eu/ European Databases of Seismogenic Faults (EDSF)] This online resource operates under the auspices of the [https://www.epos-eu.org/tcs/seismology EPOS TCS-Seismology] work program, particularly those of the [http://www.efehr.org/start/ EFEHR Consortium], and considers the principles expressed by the [https://www.epos-eu.org/node/91 EPOS Data Policy]. EDSF distributes services for data about seismogenic faulting proposed by the scientific community or solicited to the scientific community or stemming from project partnerships that involved the use or development of the EDSF installation itself.

==Tools==
{{sisterlinks|Earthquakes}}
:''Main tool page: [[tools:~dispenser/view/Tools|toolserver.org]]''
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks]] –  Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks]] – Edit and repair external links
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver]] – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer|Peer reviewer]] – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.


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