Talk:Magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Afghanistan

Original Reporting in a fraction

• I was here in my hostel room, reading an eBook, when I felt the waves. My bed and table were shaking. It was not that powerful, but everyone felt the earthquake. Later, after my WiFi problem was solved, I searched and it is 7.5 on Richter.
  14.139.242.195 (talk) 21:28, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
• My friend knocked the door, and exclaimed that it is an earthquake. I said, I know. I sent message to my friends at around 3 PM IST. The tremors lasted for a minute. In between the intensity decreased, and then, it rose again. It came to halt then. Nobody was injured in the university premises.
• Almost an year ago, we had an earthquake in Gujarat of 4.7, but this one felt stronger.
• We had treasure hunting, and some students could not feel it that strong.
• I asked my room mate, who was busy in Talf activity if he felt the tremors, he said that there was some shaking, but he wasn't sure because he had a head ache.
  14.139.242.195 (talk) 21:45, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Edit Conflict

@Rubbish computer: Friend! It is an WN:OR Your edits conflicted, and whole data was lost in this browser. Don't take it in a wrong way, but please let me complete the thing. Moreover, prefer internal links over Wikilinks eg. for Afghanistan. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 14.139.242.195 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 26 October 2015‎

A template of possible use is {{editing}}. --Pi zero (talk) 22:21, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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Original Reporting about Afghanistan earthquake

I made the article with IP ‎14.139.242.195. You can see, I am in Neemrana, that is Alwar district of Rajasthan, India. The notes are:

1. Reading an eBook on my bed, my bed was shaking.
2. I noticed the time in my laptop, it was 2:50 PM IST.
3. My friend entered the room moments later and exclaimed that it is an earthquake.
4. Last year, in Gujarat, there was an earthquake of 4.7 magnitude, when I was sitting on a chair. But this felt stronger.
5. The vibrations decreased. And the next moment, it increased. The laptop clock crossed 2:51 and the vibrations stopped. It wasn't 2:52.
6. I messaged my school friends at around 3.
7. My roommate, who took part in TALF activity of treasure hunt felt the vibrations, but he wasn't sure if it was an earthquake since he had headache.
8. I thought that it would be under 5. Later, at night, one of my friends asked if everything was alright.
   1. Since my laptop wasn't connecting to WiFi, I was unaware that it was 7.5
9. Another friend said that she saw the news. So I checked. (I went to Windows 8.1 from 10) and it was 7.5 magnitude.

acagastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :)
22:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
14.139.242.195 (talk) 00:53, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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Further to add, today, since I slept very late, in the afternoon, I asked my friends who are in Pilani, the neighboring district about the earthquake. One said that he felt the tremors. Another friend also told that their lectures were going on and thus, the projector shook by the waves and they asked the professor to cancel the lectures. Many of them left the class.
acagastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 08:19, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

14.139.242.195 (talk) 08:25, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Asked another friend from Gurgaon NCR. He said the students were asked to go out in the open ground and return after some time. Most of them went home.
acagastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 08:56, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

14.139.242.195 (talk) 08:57, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

My friend (in BITS) added that he was in library, listening to music when suddenly all of them rushed outside. later he discovered that it was an earthquake.
acagastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 13:10, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

14.139.242.195 (talk) 13:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Review of revision 3931277 [Passed]

Revision 3931277 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 22:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: I had various problems during fact-check. Some of this was presumably because one of the source articles was replaced by its news site (I don't approve; it tastes to me like rewriting history; but I digress), which may account for various details I couldn't find and clearly accounts for an updated death count. There were also a few facts that had gotten garbled a bit, though. Original reporting needs to be clearly identified; its existence in the article is usually worth at least alluding to in the lede, and where facts in the article are from OR that should be clear to the reader. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 3931277 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 22:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: I had various problems during fact-check. Some of this was presumably because one of the source articles was replaced by its news site (I don't approve; it tastes to me like rewriting history; but I digress), which may account for various details I couldn't find and clearly accounts for an updated death count. There were also a few facts that had gotten garbled a bit, though. Original reporting needs to be clearly identified; its existence in the article is usually worth at least alluding to in the lede, and where facts in the article are from OR that should be clear to the reader. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Request to add the CAT

{{editprotected}} Please add the category of USGS.
14.139.242.195 (talk) 04:02, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

The extent of USGS involvement here is their saying it was at such-and-such depth due to reverse faulting. That feels to me more like an incidental mention than something one would want to know about if one were researching USGS in our archives. (The advice I recall from a draft guideline somewhere on the site, from long ago, that made a lot of sense to me, was that when trying to decide whether an article belongs in a category, ask yourself whether in researching the topic of that category in our archives you would want that particular article to be brought to your attention.) --Pi zero (talk) 19:13, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

CAT to be added

{{editprotected}} Please add Category:Nawaz Sharif and Category:Narendra Modi to the article. I guess they played sufficient role to have the CAT
14.139.242.195 (talk) 19:36, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Done --Pi zero (talk) 19:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

CAT

{{editprotected}} Further, I see CAT:Asia is missing. I am not trying to bug, but just now, by clicking rando articles, landed on Portal:Disasters and accidents. The article is not listed there. CAT:Disasters and accidents aslo to be added.
14.139.242.195 (talk) 21:05, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Not bugging; perfectly reasonable concerns about a published article. It is in Category:Asia already, though. Added disasters and accidents; thanks. --Pi zero (talk) 21:31, 29 October 2015 (UTC)