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The following discussion 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 BlueMoonset (talk) 19:34, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake

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Created/expanded by Mikenorton (talk). Self nom at 20:23, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

  • Article is new at ~2500 chars
  • Is neutral, cited inline, no obvious copyvio
  • While there are only 3 sources, they seem sufficient
  • Hook is short enough (127 chars) and is interesting
  • No image
Issues:
  • Nominator needs to fulfill QPQ
  • I cannot see that there was a "significant component of left-lateral strike-slip faulting". It is mentioned, but I do not see where it says that it was significant.
  • The first sentence of #Earthquake characteristics needs work, mainly with the clause "published the following year" being so far from the word analysis. Maybe mention the publish time in another sentence?

Holding this until the issues are resolved, but overall a nice little article. Chris857 (talk) 03:15, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

The Okal source says on page 278 "these authors proposed a left-lateral strike-slip motion oriented ~30° NE at the eastern edge of the Rat Island block. An earthquake on 1966 July 4 in the Amchitka Pass has precisely this mechanism (Stauder 1968a). It may be speculative to extrapolate this general motion to the inferred hypocentre of the 1906 event, but we cannot fail to notice that it is in agreement with the large strike-slip component of mechanism I (the preferred mechanism, see page 274)". I've changed the article text to 'large', as used in the source. I've also tweaked the sentence about the publication of the seismograms. Hopefully that's sufficient. Mikenorton (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Looks good, so this can pass once QPQ is met. Chris857 (talk) 16:56, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Ready to go. Chris857 (talk) 21:33, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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