Talk:1931 Valentine earthquake

GA Review

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Reviewer: LunaEatsTuna (talk · contribs) 03:09, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

I believe that should be all. Thanks for expanding this article! I have placed it on hold for one week. Please ping me once you have addressed my concerns so that I can know when to reevaluate. Thanks, 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 04:33, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Nice work on the changes! I am now pleased to pass this article for GA status. Congrats! 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 17:33, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Copyvio check

Earwig says good to go. No concerns from me either.

Files

All images are relevant, high quality and copyright-free:

• File:1931 Valentine, Texas earthquake ShakeMap.jpg: valid public domain rationale;
• File:2018 Long-term National Seismic Hazard Map (2018nshm-longterm).jpg: valid public domain rationale;
• File:2014-07-26 Valentine Buildings.jpg: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

Prose

• "earthquakes in Texas history have" – wikilink Texas since the other US states mentioned later are wikilinked.
• "at the state's western extremum" – May be personal taste, but I have only ever heard extremum used in mathematics. Recommend rephrasing.
• "One 1987 study" – I would name who/which organisation conducted the study.
• "cracks in the alluvium" – wikilink alluvium.
• Add a new == section titled Earthquake above the second paragraph of Geology.
• "long stretch near Valentine;" wikilink Valentine as first mention in the body.
• There is a discrepancy between the body and the infobox: "Valentine earthquake occurred at 6:40 a.m. CST," however in the infobox the time parameter says "05:40 CST". Also:
• "The main Valentine earthquake occurred at 6:40 a.m. CST (11:40 UTC)" – unabbreviate CST and wikilink both CST and UTC.
• The coordinations given in the article versus the infobox appear to be different.
• "portions of Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Mexico" – do the sources say which areas within Mexico?
• "The strongest aftershock occurred at" – what was its magnitude?
• "stopping clocks in El Paso, Texas." – remove Texas as the article already establishes to the reader that both Valentine and El Paso are in Texas.
• "most intense in the Valentine, Texas, area." – recommend "most intense in the areas around Valentine." or something similar.
• "from falling adobe." – wikilink adobe.
• "and awakening many." – recommend "and awakening many people."
• "The Mercalli intensity in Houston was estimated" – wikilink Houston.
• "The August 18 aftershock – the largest aftershock – produced a maximum intensity of V ("Moderate")." – this does not seem relevant in Damage.

Refs

All sources are RS. Passes spotcheck. I decided to spotcheck all sources I could find access to—no concerns with refs 4, 8, 14 or 15.

• In ref 1's title, earthquakes should be capitalised. Also:
• Ref 1 is cited seven times with no page numbers provided. Recommend using template:Sfn to make it easier for readers to factcheck information.
• Could a page number be provided for refs 6 and 11?
• In ref 8, Wikilink United States Geological Survey. Speaking of:
• Ref 8 uses "United States Geological Survey" whilst the other refs spell it "U.S. Geological Survey". Either way is fine but these should be consistent.
• In ref 15: wikilink El Paso Times and Newspapers.com.

Other

Infobox, short description, See also, External links, nav, cats and other templates all good.

• Recommend adding template:Use X English

@LunaEatsTuna: Thanks for the prompt review. I made adjustments as you recommended in this edit. As for page numbers, I've used {{rp}} to notate the relevant page number next to each citation. —TheAustinMan^{(Talk ⬩ Edits)} 16:16, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

That works!

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 00:29, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that the 1931 Valentine earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Texas? Source: Dumas, David B.; Dorman, H. James; Latham, Gary V. (August 1980). "A reevaluation of the August 16, 1931 Texas earthquake". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 70 (4): 1171–1180. doi:10.1785/BSSA0700041171.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Taters Chatham

Improved to Good Article status by TheAustinMan (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 14:27, 24 January 2023 (UTC).

• The DOI link is dead, but I was able to find the source here. The article writes, "Estimates for its magnitude range between m_b 5.6–6.4, making it the strongest earthquake in Texas on record." The source itself is dated 1980 and predates other Texas earthquakes that have articles: 1995 Marathon earthquake and Oklahoma earthquake swarms (2009–present). Those two articles also listed magnitudes in a different scale (M_w), so I used the conversions here to confirm that the magnitudes of those earthquakes do not exceed m_b 5.6–6.4. —Arsonal (talk + contribs)— 23:53, 24 January 2023 (UTC)