Talk:1964 Rosais earthquake

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Severely flawed. Needs sources and key data.

@Zeorymer and anyone else interested in this article (and cc @Dawnseeker2000 and Mikenorton): while this article has content of interest (specifically, of significant societal impact), it is severely flawed. For one thing (as I have already tagged the article), it is based mostly on a single source. Also, being in Portuguese, it is resistant to verification. To save this article (which I am inclined to favor) will require finding more sources.

The lack of any other sources also bears on notability (also tagged). It is telling that neither of our premier earthquake sources, the ISC and USGS-ANSS catalogs, list this quake as significant (and they do have a relatively low threshold for significance). Perhaps the French (BCIS) have a record, but as they forward nearly all of their data to the ISC this is unlikely. There undoubtedly is (or was) a seismological station in the Azores (search the ISC's "station codes" to find it), and possibly there might be some kind of record there.

The lack of any seismological record of epicenter, depth, and, most importantly, magnitude, is especially damning in regard of notability. That it was a very small quake need not be fatal, in light of the societal impact, but we really should have these key data. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]