Talk:1997 Bojnurd earthquake

1997 Bojnurd earthquake has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: December 28, 2022. (Reviewed version).

A fact from 1997 Bojnurd earthquake appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the relatively low death toll of 100 of the 1997 Bojnurd earthquake was attributed to a foreshock and most residents being outdoors?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

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... that the relatively low death toll of 100 of the 1997 Bojnurd earthquake was attributed to a foreshock and most residents' being outdoors? Source: [1]
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- Comment: QPQ not required since this is my 4th DYK nomination

Improved to Good Article status by Dora the Axe-plorer (talk). Self-nominated at 01:59, 30 December 2022 (UTC).Reply

(This is my first DYK review.) I've tweaked the hook for grammar. Article has been recently promoted to GA. Earwig's detector doesn't indicate any concerns, only spurious hits. The factoid appears on page 1168, or on page 8 of the PDF ("Because most people were working outdoors and there was a warning foreshock, casualties were relatively light (∼100 killed)"). I'd say the hook is interesting to a broad audience, and the information is in the article and cited. Article itself looks to be in good shape. Ovinus (talk) 08:42, 31 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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