Talk:1996 Biak earthquake

1996 Biak earthquake has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: August 26, 2022. (Reviewed version).

This article was nominated for deletion on 16 October 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

A fact from 1996 Biak earthquake appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 8.2 M_w Biak earthquake of 1996 triggered disproportionately large tsunamis relative to its magnitude?

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: QatarStarsLeague (talk · contribs) 20:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review coming QatarStarsLeague (talk) 20:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's no standard on what measurements are included beyond perhaps moment magnitude, but I notice other GA earthquake articles list focal depth and/or surface wave readings---is that available here?
Perhaps a brief primer on the process of oblique subduction is warranted?
The same could be prescribed for mentions of the "slip" centers. Either that or a wikilink as was provided for other, more technical less intuitive geological terms
"which they understood as a signal that a large wave" I'm guessing just discernment, but without an earthquake for a near-century prior, how did the islanders know to seek elevation?
For "See also", you link to the '76 Papuan earthquake---are the same faults involved or just due to the Australian/Pacific plate intersection?
References/images all good. Great article without much else needed. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 21:11, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The depth is included in the infobox, but I could put it somewhere within the article. The surface wave magnitude has not been computed or reported so I will not be able to add that.

I will add to the oblique setting when I get home.

I am not quite sure what you mean by the slip centers, but I will try to add wikilinks to the more technical terms.

The islanders understanding of a large impending wave was simply phrased that way in the source. I personally do not know how they would, but that is what a reliable source says, so I included that information.

For the see also, they are both just related by Australian/Pacific interaction.

Thank you for the feedback and I'll ping you when I get home and fix the issues! SamBroGaming (talk) 21:54, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@QatarStarsLeague I have fixed the issues you have brought up, and moved the oblique portion to the tectonic setting where my refs better explain it. Hopefully that is enough to GA it, but of course if more fixing needs to be done, please let me know. Thanks, SamBroGaming (talk) 01:25, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 16:48, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 1996 M_w  8.2 Biak earthquake triggered disproportionately large tsunamis relative to its magnitude? Source: http://ijog.geologi.esdm.go.id/index.php/IJOG/article/view/135
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Improved to Good Article status by SamBroGaming (talk). Self-nominated at 05:43, 27 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hook is interesting and sourced. QPQ just needs to be done and then this will be ready. Thriley (talk) 15:33, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SamBroGaming: QPQ check is not showing any prior DYK credits. Can you confirm if this is your first DYK nomination? If it is, you don't need to provide a QPQ. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:23, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: @Thriley: Yes, this is my first DYK nomination SamBroGaming (talk) 18:04, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Thriley: I guess this is good to go now? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:47, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks all set. Thriley (talk) 06:07, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]