Talk:Foreshock

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A fact from Foreshock appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 December 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 2002 Sumatra earthquake is considered to be a foreshock of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/December.

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Purpose of the table

It's not clear to me how the table of examples is really helping. It's just becoming yet another list of earthquakes. Either it needs to be reorganised to provide examples from different settings - extensional, thrust and strike-slip and a few examples perhaps of the variation in amount of delay or it should go. Mikenorton (talk) 17:36, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also think that the number of columns is excessive and that some of them are irrelevant - does it matter whether the mainshock triggered a tsunami? or what the mainshock's maximum intensity was? wouldn't the intensity of the foreshock be of more interest?. I've started to make the table more concise, removing the deaths and tsunami columns and replacing them with "Type" and "Comments", moving citations to the latter. Mikenorton (talk) 18:30, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Mainshock" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Mainshock. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 18#Mainshock until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tavix ^(talk) 20:58, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]