Talk:1949 Ambato earthquake

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1949 Ambato earthquake is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 19, 2011.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 9, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
December 6, 2010	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 17, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 1949 Ambato earthquake, which killed 5,050 people, caused an entire town to sink 1,500 feet into the ground?
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 5, 2012, August 5, 2017, August 5, 2019, August 5, 2022, and August 5, 2024.
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New References

Hi all, it would be great if the two new references, specified only as "Louis" and "h.", could be made a bit more specific. --Pgallert (talk) 21:42, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Pgallert - I had forgotten! It took a lot of digging to find them fyi. It wasn't that I didn't try finding any for the GAN. ;) ceranthor 22:09, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have fiddled a bit with the Louis reference, see article: This way you can produce a link from the notes to the bibliography. --Pgallert (talk) 08:42, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

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http://www.fiestasdeambato.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2
- In 1949 Ambato earthquake on 2011-05-25 03:24:07, 404 Not Found
- In 1949 Ambato earthquake on 2011-06-04 17:08:06, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 17:08, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Link fixed. Mikenorton (talk) 22:12, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link 2

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.ambato.gov.ec/catedral.html
- In 1949 Ambato earthquake on 2011-05-25 03:24:07, 404 Not Found
- In 1949 Ambato earthquake on 2011-06-04 17:08:16, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 17:08, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This one has vanished - I'm still looking for a suitable replacement. Mikenorton (talk) 22:24, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Intro

The opening line reads: largest earthquake in the Western Hemisphere in over a decade

A quick USGS catalog search [1] finds 30 earthquakes that were larger than 6.8 in South America alone during the period 1939-1949 so this sentence needs some tweaking. RapidR (talk) 17:08, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Damage and Casualties: photo of Pelileo

The caption under the photo seems to show an incorrect spelling of the hamlet name. I cannot see how to correct this.

The village name is Pelileo, but the label under the photo actually shows Pelìeo

Ed8r (talk) 18:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Now a FA in Chinese Wikipedia

I have translated this article to Chinese Wikipedia here and promoted to FA status, and I want to thank User:Ceranthor for his effort to write this amazing article. --Jarodalien (talk) 16:06, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for Editors

It seems unclear to use the wording: largest earthquake in the Western Hemisphere in over a decade. What is meant by largest? Does it mean the most powerful?
Doesn't the statement: The hypocenter of the earthquake occurred 40 km (25 mi) beneath the surface, under a mountain 72 km (45 mi) from Ambato require some citation?

Gomez.alexa (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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