earthquake

Summary

earthquake ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,242 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 geographically localized event^[4].
• earthquake is a type of Q136927433^[5].
• earthquake's Commons category is recorded as Earthquakes^[6].
• earthquake's has cause is recorded as active fault^[7].
• earthquake's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Earthquakes^[8].
• earthquake's Commons gallery is recorded as Earthquake^[9].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[10].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[12].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[13].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[14].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[16].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[18].
• earthquake's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[19].
• earthquake's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox earthquake^[20].
• earthquake's topic has template is recorded as Template:Earthquakes^[21].
• earthquake's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/earthquake^[22].
• earthquake's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/tags/earthquakes^[23].
• earthquake's has effect is recorded as landslide^[24].
• earthquake's has effect is recorded as tsunami^[25].
• earthquake's has effect is recorded as soil liquefaction^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

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

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]; Az-Zalzala^[32], a surah^[33]; and Earthquake^[34], a film^[35], directed by Sarik Andreasyan^[36].

Why It Matters

earthquake ranks in the top 0.49% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,242 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 48 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]; Az-Zalzala^[32], a surah^[33]; and Earthquake^[34], a film^[35], directed by Sarik Andreasyan^[36].