1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami

Alaska earthquake and megatsunami
Event earthquake Q10745598
1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami
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1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami

Summary

1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami is an earthquake[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,421 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami is located in Alaska[3].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami is in the country of United States[4].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's image is recorded as Lituya Bay overview.jpg[5].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's instance of is recorded as earthquake[6].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's location is recorded as Lituya Bay[7].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's Commons category is recorded as Lituya Bay megatsunami[8].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's point in time is recorded as +1958-07-10T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 58.6425, 'lon': -137.565}[10].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05f40g6[11].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's earthquake magnitude on the moment magnitude scale is recorded as {'amount': '+7.8'}[12].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's modified Mercalli intensity scale is recorded as Mercalli scale VIII[13].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's modified Mercalli intensity scale is recorded as Mercalli scale XI[14].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's USGS earthquake ID is recorded as iscgem884702[15].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+10.0'}[16].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's ISC event ID is recorded as 884702[17].
  • 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[18].

Why It Matters

1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami ranks in the top 1% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,421 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . ngdc.noaa.gov. ngdc.noaa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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