1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

major earthquake in northern California
Event earthquake Q1053476
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

Summary

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is an earthquake[1]. It ranks in the top 0.35% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,856 views/month, #3 of 869).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is located in California[3].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake is in the country of United States[4].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's image is recorded as Cypress collapsed.jpg[5].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's instance of is recorded as earthquake[6].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's instance of is recorded as natural disaster[7].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's instance of is recorded as disaster[8].
  • Loma Prieta is named after 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake[9].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2003006457[10].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's Commons category is recorded as Loma Prieta earthquake[11].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's point in time is recorded as +1989-10-17T00:00:00Z[12].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.04, 'lon': -121.877}[13].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01mv1y[14].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+63'}[15].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+3757'}[16].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/San-Francisco-Oakland-earthquake-of-1989[17].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's has effect is recorded as landslide[18].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's has effect is recorded as tsunami[19].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's BBC Things ID is recorded as dea066b0-4ae4-4202-af27-fe41cf65d223[20].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's different from is recorded as 2009 Sumatra earthquakes[21].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+11.5'}[22].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's earthquake magnitude on the moment magnitude scale is recorded as {'amount': '+6.9'}[23].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's cost of damage is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+5800000000'}[24].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's modified Mercalli intensity scale is recorded as Mercalli scale IX[25].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's USGS earthquake ID is recorded as usp00040t8[26].
  • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake's USGS earthquake ID is recorded as nc216859[27].

Why It Matters

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ranks in the top 0.35% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,856 views/month, #3 of 869).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . news.bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . pubs.usgs.gov. pubs.usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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