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seabed rising created new island according to Reuters - I don't know if it has a name yet or any more info, but probably worth a little digging. EdwardLane (talk) 16:57, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

6.8 Magnitude aftershock

large magnitude aftershock at 14-20km depth reported here USGS reports a preliminary Magnitude of 6.8, EMSC 7.0 and Geofon 6.6 - nasty. EdwardLane (talk) 14:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was no aftershock, it was a separate earthquake--80.187.100.226 (talk) 13:02, 24 November 2013 (UTC)Lukatz[reply]

New Shakemap

http://comcat.cr.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000jyiv#shakemap — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.100.226 (talk) 13:05, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 September 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 07:44, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2013 Pakistan earthquake → 2013 Balochistan earthquakes – We would improve on a somewhat generic "Pakistan" title (we have a handful of "#### Pakistan earthquake" articles) and would align with what reliable sources are calling it with this proposed move. We should also specify that there were multiple shocks, as there was a M6.8 aftershock on September 28. The editor who created a move ruckus on September 7 (and that prompted this RM) has created a separate article on that aftershock with a nonstandard title. That article should be deleted, as no one will realistically be searching for it, and its minimal content should be merged here.

Jolivet, R.; Duputel, Z.; Riel, B.; Simons, M.; Rivera, L.; Minson, S. E.; Zhang, H.; Aivazis, M. A. G.; Ayoub, F.; Leprince, S.; Samsonov, S.; Motagh, M.; Fielding, E. J. (2014), "The 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake : Seismic potential of an accretionary wedge" (PDF), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104 (2), Seismological Society of America: 1020–1030, doi:10.1785/0120130313
Avouac, J-P; Ayoub, F.; Wei, S.; Ampuero, J-P.; Meng, L.; Leprince, S.; Jolivet, R.; Duputel, Z.; Helmberger, D. (2014), "The 2013, Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake, energetic strike-slip reactivation of a thrust fault" (PDF), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, Elsevier: 128–134 {{citation}}: line feed character in |title= at position 63 (help)

These sources (BSSA, Elsevier) are calling it the 2013 Balochistan earthquake. Dawnseeker2000 17:47, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support based on rationale. However, I would note that we can never merge and delete anything, ever. Copyright requires that the source of any merge be retained (usually as a redirect) – and the edit summary upon any merge in both the merge-from source page and merge-to target should each provides links to the other page, with a description of what was done. However, the source page does not need to remain at the original title if it's a implausible malaprop etc., but any move of it to another name, e.g. a far more plausible redirect, should occur before the copyright attribution edit summary is left so it actually points directly at the name where the source history is retained--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:48, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Understood, and thank you for the clarification. I misspoke; should not have used the "merge" word. My initial thought was that there's little to retain from that one, including the title. It's enough of a mess that we should delete it altogether and start over with new aftershock content in this article. Dawnseeker2000 19:01, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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