earthquake

result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
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earthquake

Summary

earthquake ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,407 views/month, #384 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • earthquake is a type of natural disaster[2].
  • earthquake is a type of geologic activity[3].
  • earthquake is a type of starquake[4].
  • earthquake is a type of geographically localized event[5].
  • earthquake is a type of Q136927433[6].
  • earthquake's Commons category is recorded as Earthquakes[7].
  • earthquake's has cause is recorded as active fault[8].
  • earthquake's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Earthquakes[9].
  • earthquake's Commons gallery is recorded as Earthquake[10].
  • earthquake's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Earthquakes[11].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[14].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[15].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[16].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[20].
  • earthquake's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[21].
  • earthquake's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox earthquake[22].
  • earthquake's topic has template is recorded as Template:Earthquakes[23].
  • earthquake's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/earthquake[24].
  • earthquake's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/tags/earthquakes[25].
  • earthquake's has effect is recorded as landslide[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural disaster[2], geologic activity[3], starquake[4], geographically localized event[5], and Q136927433[6].

Influence

Things named for earthquake include 2007 Peru earthquake[27], in Peru[28]; Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes[29], a film[30], directed by Robert Schwentke[31]; Earthquake[32], a film[33], directed by Sarik Andreasyan[34]; and Az-Zalzala[35], a surah[36].

Why It Matters

earthquake ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,407 views/month, #384 of 77,819).[1] earthquake has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] earthquake is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Entities named for earthquake include 2007 Peru earthquake[27], in Peru[28]; Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes[29], a film[30], directed by Robert Schwentke[31]; Earthquake[32], a film[33], directed by Sarik Andreasyan[34]; and Az-Zalzala[35], a surah[36].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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  4. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Environment ontology id → 01000677
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3859]]: 01000677, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143355282|earthquake (#143355282)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment Ontology"
  2. 4d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX526576
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ann', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX526576"
  3. 16d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000389
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  4. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → earthquakes
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: earthquakes, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932860|earthquakes (#289932860)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  5. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Texas Rangers
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 5395
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295482, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  6. 13w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Erdbeben
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P10916]]: Erdbeben, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213751950|Erdbeben (#213751950)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7168|Süddeutsche Zeitung t"
  7. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 2324
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 2324, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107284560|earthquakes (#107284560)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictio"
  8. 15w ago · Mullanur · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main wikimedia portal → Portal:Earthquakes
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1151]]: [[Q10929748]]"
  9. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004471-zemetreseni
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0004471-zemetreseni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  10. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 8259, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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