Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/June 2005 California earthquakes

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The result was delete. Core desat 05:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 2005 California earthquakes[edit]

WP:NOT#NEWS, thousands of earthquakes happens every year, no reason why this one is significant from others, no sources indicating the notabilty of this earthquake, prod removed Delete Secret ^account 23:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep significant, considering that its about a season of seismic events in a region where this is a big issue. Shiva_eVolved 00:00, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unsourced, synthesis, not notable because the region has earthquakes all the time. This would be like an article on "June 2005 thunderstorms in Brazil". AnteaterZot (talk) 00:29, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Earthquakes happen frequently in California. I see no evidence that these are more notable than the rest. Ice Cold Beer (talk) 00:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless there is scientific, not anecdotal, evidence that this was a notable string of quakes. --Dhartung | Talk 04:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This information could be incorporated into another article, since the 7.2 magnitude quake (off the coast) prompted tsunami warnings, but, fortunately, caused no damage. I think all of the comments above have merit. I'm not surprised that it caused some residents to think it was a portent of "The Big One", given the magnitude and the close timing, as Shiva notes. Happily, it turned out to be non-notable as others have observed. Mandsford (talk) 22:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. "Due to these earthquakes, some residents have begun preparing for the "big one", a large hypothetical earthquake" suggests this wasn't taken as just anotehr earthquake. But then there should be reliable sources discussing the notable aftermath. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unrelated series of events; Truckee, Anza, and Crescent City are so far apart as to make any seismic connection between them highly implausible, and only the Crescent City quake was large enough to have any potential notability. As for the speculation at the end, delete it twice as hard. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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