Template:Infobox earthquake

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For presenting the key data of an earthquake in a consistent, standardized format.

Usage

{{Infobox earthquake
 | name        = 
 | image       = <!-- file name only -->
 | alt         = 
 | caption     = 
 | map         = <!-- file name only -->
 | map_alt     = 
 | map_caption =
 | pushpin_map = <!-- as per Template:Location map -->
 | pre-1900    = <!-- Set to 'yes' if before 1900-01-01. Relaxes timestamp format -->
 | timestamp   = <!-- UTC date/time ("origin time") in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:[ss] format -->
 | isc-event   = <!-- ISC event id, or "n/a". SEE BELOW -->
 | anss-url    = <!-- Url (or fragment) of USGS-ANSS event page, or "n/a". SEE BELOW. -->
 | local-date  = <!-- Local date of area most affected: '{{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}' -->
 | local-time  = <!-- From newspapers? Include timezone -->
 | date        = <!-- *Deprecated*. Use 'local-date' -->
 | time        = <!-- *Deprecated*. Use 'local-time' -->
 | origintime  = <!-- *Deprecated*. Use 'timestamp' -->
 | duration    =
 | magnitude   = <!-- 'N.N {{M|?|link=y}}'. Get proper code from source. See below. -->
 | depth       = <!-- '{{convert|NNN|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}' -->
 | location    = <!-- '{{coord|XXXXX|region:XX_type:event|display=inline,title}}' -->
 | fault       = 
 | type        =
 | affected    = 
 | damages     = <!-- cost/extent of property damage -->
 | intensity   =
 | pga         = <!-- NN ''[[Peak ground acceleration|g]]'' -->
 | pgv         = <!-- NN cm/s -->
 | tsunami     = 
 | landslide   =
 | foreshocks  =
 | aftershocks =
 | casualties  =
 | engvar      = <!-- follow article: =en-UK will show 'Epicentre' -->
 | citations    =
}}

Examples

2007 Peru earthquake

Piles of rubble, one week after the shock
Map of the Peru coastline, showing location and strength of quake. Star marks epicenter.
UTC time	2007-08-15 23:40:58
ISC event	1280473
USGS-ANSS	ComCat
Local date	August 15, 2007 (2007-08-15)
Local time	18:40
Magnitude	8.0 Mw
Depth	39 km (24 mi)
Epicenter	13.354°S 76.509°W / -13.354; -76.509
Fault	Nazca-South American plate
Areas affected	Ica Region (Pisco, Ica and Chincha Alta) and Lima Region (San Vicente de Cañete)
Tsunami	flooded part of Lima's Costa Verde highway, and much of Pisco's shore
Casualties	519 confirmed dead, 1,366 injured

{{Infobox earthquake
 | name        = 2007 Peru earthquake
 | image       = 40 - Tremblement de terre - Août 2007.JPG
 | alt         = Picture showing earthquake damage.
 | caption     = Piles of rubble, one week after the shock
 | map         = Peru Quake Aug 15-2007.jpg
 | map_alt     = Map of the Peru coastline, showing location and strength of quake.
 | map_caption = Map of the Peru coastline, showing location and strength of quake. Star marks [[epicenter]].
 | timestamp   = 2007-08-15 23:40:37
 | isc-event   = 1280473
 | anss-url    = usp000fjta
 | local-date  = {{Start date|2007|8|15}}
 | local-time  = 18:40
 | magnitude   = 8.0 {{M|w|link=y}}
 | depth       = {{convert|39|km|mi|abbr=on}}
 | location    = {{coord|13.354|S|76.509|W|region:PE_type:event|display=inline,title}}
 | fault       = [[Nazca Plate|Nazca]]-[[South American Plate|South American plate]]
 | affected    = [[Ica Region]] ([[Pisco, Peru|Pisco]], [[Ica (city)|Ica]] and [[Chincha Alta]]) and [[Lima Region]] ([[San Vicente de Cañete]])
 | tsunami     = flooded part of Lima's Costa Verde highway, and much of Pisco's shore
 | casualties  = 519 confirmed dead, 1,366 injured
}}

New parameters

As of March, 2018, new parameters have been added to resolve some long-running problems regarding the specification of the date and time of earthquakes. On one hand, the local population (for whom the event has the most significance) and local sources identify an earthquake by the local day and time-of-day, which is also a significant factor in societal impact. On the other hand, earthquake catalogs identify and index earthquakes by their UTC time. Unfortunately, this Infobox has had only one pair of parameters for this purpose – 'date' and 'time' – and indicated neither to the editor whether local or UTC time should be used, nor to the reader which time was used (unless an editor was thoughtful enough to indicate the time zone). There is also an 'origintime' which, being similar to the "origin time" used in some catalogs, suggested UTC time and format, but, when used, actually supplanted the value given for 'time'. Some editors have used a time conversion utility to derive a UTC time from a specified local time, but this is a dubious practice: the UTC time actually used to index a quake should be obtained directly, not calculated from a non-authoritative local time.

These issues can now be avoided by using three new parameters: timestamp, local-date, and local-time. The latter are two are exactly what they say they are: the local day and time, and labeled as such in the display. There are no restrictions on how these are formatted; lacking any other guidelines they can be formatted at the editor's discretion. On the other hand, 'timestamp' is the quake's UTC time in all numeric 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss' (ISO) format (the seconds being optional), as found in an authoritative catalog. A properly formatted UTC timestamp is now required (unless 'pre-1900' is set); any other text (including timezone or citations) generates an error. Adding "UTC" is not necessary, as that is included in the displayed label: "UTC time". With these new parameters the use of the ambiguous 'date' and 'time' parameters is deprecated, and should be removed. However, please do not simply copy the old values. These should be checked with an authoritative source such as the ANSS or ISC (see below), which have chronological indices (here and here).

There is also a pre-1900 parameter. Setting this to "yes" identifies a quake as being "historical" (meaning it occurred before the dawn of the instrumental period), relaxes the formatting otherwise required for 'timestamp', and makes certain other parameters optional.

Please note that newspapers and other news sites are NOT reliable sources for the technical details of earthquakes, such as time, location, depth, and – most importantly – magnitude. For details of "breaking news" earthquakes recourse should be had to the same source the news agencies go to: the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS), a partnership of the USGS (NEIC) and various regional networks which monitors global seismicity and provides information on notable events, usually within 15 minutes. (See Latest Earthquakes, or the Significant Earthquake archive, which link to specific event pages in the Comprehensive Catalog.) The new anss-url parameter provides a link to a specific event page, given either the whole url to the event page (e.g.: |anss-url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000fjta), or just the final part (e.g.: |anss-url=usp000fjta). For uncataloged events (mainly before 1964) use "n/a" ("not available").

The new isc-event parameter provides a link to the event's bibliography page at the International Seismological Centre (ISC) (see chronological Event Index), with a summary of the preferred magnitude and epicenter, and a link to the event's data page. Data collected by the ISC is generally not available until about two months after the event. After two years all available data is reviewed and the magnitudes and location recalculated to provide the most authoritative values available. For uncataloged events (mainly before 1964) use "n/a" ("not available").

Replacement of the deprecated parameters with the new parameters should include verification of the data, and citation to the authoritative source. For this purpose please see the {{cite anss}} and {{cite isc}} templates.

Doublet earthquakes

Doublet example

UTC time	Doublet earthquake:
	2011-02-21 23:51:42
	2011-02-22 00:04:17
ISC event
	16168897
	16461282
Local date	February 21, 2011
Local time
	13:54 a.m
	14:05 p.m.
Magnitude
	6.1 Mw
	5.5 Mw

There are special provisions for handling doublet earthquakes, the small number of large earthquakes where the main rupture is interrupted or delayed, resulting in two (or more: multiplet) shocks of similar magnitude, usually within minutes to days of each other. These are not aftershocks (a series of consequent events that usually begin a whole magnitude less than the main shock and steadily diminish in magnitude and frequency according to known laws), these are multiple main shocks. In such cases it incorrect to identify one shock that is slightly bigger than the rest as the main shock, and the rest as foreshocks or aftershocks.

Setting |timestamp=doublet (or "triplet" or "multiplet") produces a wikilink to Doublet earthquake so the reader will understand that the following lines refer to the different parts of a multiple event, not to aftershocks or to different estimates of magnitude for a single event. This feature will automatically add the article to Category:Doublet earthquakes. Where doublets have separate articles and this feature is not used, the category should be explicitly added to each article. In general, stating that the quake is a doublet should be contingent on a source.

For handling multi-part main shocks, five parameters – timestamp, isc-event, anss-url, local-time, and magnitude – have a suffixed form (e.g.: timestamp-A, etc.) for adding multiple values, as seen in the example. Other parameters (like depth, intensity, etc.) are free-format, and multiple values can be added by judicious use of "<br>" and "&nbsp;". To enable explicit labeling of each part add the line |tags=y. See the articles in Category:Doublet earthquakes for examples; see 2010 Mindanao earthquakes for a complex example.

Microformat

The HTML mark-up produced by this template includes an hCalendar microformat that makes event details readily parsable by computer programs. This aids tasks such as the cataloguing of articles and maintenance of databases. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please visit the Microformat WikiProject.

Classes used

The HTML classes of this microformat include:

• attendee
• contact
• description
• dtend
• dtstart
• location
• organiser
• summary
• url
• vevent

Please do not rename or remove these classes
nor collapse nested elements which use them.

See also

• {{M}}
• {{eq-isc-link}}
• {{Cite anss}}
• {{Cite isc}}
• {{Short-anss}}
• {{Short-isc}}

Tracking categories

• Category:Articles on pre-1900 earthquakes (2)
• Category:Doublet earthquakes (2)
• Category:EQ_articles_using_'foreshock' (7)
• Category:EQ_articles_using_'aftershock' (20)

The following identify articles needing attention.

• Category:Pages using infobox earthquake with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:EQ articles needing UTC timestamp (0)
• Category:EQ articles with UTC timestamp error (0)
• Category:EQ articles waiting for ISC event id (0)
• Category:EQ articles needing ANSS url (0)
• Category:EQ articles with ISC set 'n/a' (0)
• Category:EQ articles with ANSS set 'n/a' (0)
• Category:EQ articles needing 'local-time' (0)
• Category:EQ articles needing 'local-date' (0)
• Category:EQ articles using 'date' or 'time' (deprecated) (0)
• Category:EQ articles using 'origintime' (deprecated) (0)

TemplateData

Extended content

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template. TemplateData for Infobox earthquake Infobox for an earthquake Template parameters This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Name name title no description Example 2007 Peru earthquake String optional Image image file name only Example 40 - Tremblement de terre - Août 2007.JPG File optional Image_size image_size no description Unknown optional Alt alt image alt no description Example Picture showing earthquake damage. Unknown optional Caption caption imagecaption no description Example Piles of rubble, one week after the shock Unknown optional Map map file name only Example Peru Quake Aug 15-2007.jpg File optional Map_size map_size mapsize no description Unknown optional Map_alt map_alt map alt no description Example Map of the Peru coastline, showing location and strength of quake. String optional Map_caption map_caption image name no description Example Map of the Peru coastline, showing location and strength of quake. Star marks [[epicenter]]. String optional Pushpin Map pushpin_map The name of a location map as per Template:Location map (eg. Indonesia or Russia). The coordinates field position a pushpin mark and label on the map automatically. String optional Pushpin Mapsize pushpin_mapsize The width to display the pushpin map, in pixels. Just the number, without "px". If omitted or left empty, defaults to 220. Number optional Pushpin Map Alternative pushpin_map_alt Alt text for the pushpin map. String optional Pushpin Map Caption pushpin_map_caption Caption to display below the pushpin map. If left blank or omitted, a caption will not be displayed. String optional Pushpin Relief pushpin_relief Any non-blank value (yes, 1, etc.) will cause the template to display a relief map image, where available (see example 1). For additional information, see Template:Location map#Relief parameter. String optional Pushpin Image pushpin_image Name of an alternative map image, which must have the same edge coordinates as the location map template specified via pushpin_map Page optional Pushpin Label pushpin_label The text of the label to place next to the pushpin mark. The default is no label. String optional Pushpin Label Position pushpin_label_position The position of the label on the pushpin map relative to the pushpin mark (see example 5). Valid values are left, right, top and bottom. This defaults to either left or right, depending on the coordinates of the marker and its position relative to the right border of the map image. String optional Pushpin Mark pushpin_mark The name of an image to display as the pushpin mark. The default is File:Bullseye1.png ( Bullseye1.png ). String optional Pushpin Marksize pushpin_marksize The size of the mark in pixels Number optional (no label, not displayed) pre-1900 Earthquakes prior to 1900 are considered 'historical'. Default no Example yes Unknown optional UTC timestamp timestamp UTC date and time in 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm[:ss]' format. Required for all earthquakes since 1900. Example 1989-10-18 00:04:14 Unknown optional ISC event isc-event ISC event id; automatically linked to the event page. Usually not available until several months after the event. Example 389808 Unknown optional USGS-ANSS anss-url URL to USGS-ANSS event page Example https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc216859 Unknown optional Local date local-date {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} Example {{Start date|1989|10|18}} Unknown optional Local time local-time Local time, with timezone Example 5:04 p.m. PST Unknown optional Date date {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} Example {{Start date|2007|8|15}} Unknown optional Origin time time origintime no description Example 23:40:57 [[UTC]] Unknown optional Duration duration no description Unknown optional Magnitude magnitude Get the initial reported magnitude from the USGS-ANSS site. Indicate the scale with {{M}}. Use {{M|w}} for moment magnitude (but only if explicitly stated), {{M|.}} if implicitly Mw, or {{M|?}} if uncertain. Example 6.9 {{M|w}} String optional Depth depth {{convert|NNN|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} Example {{convert|39|km|mi|abbr=on}} String optional Epicenter location {{coord|XXXXX|region:XX_type:event|display=inline,title}} Example {{coord|13.354|S|76.509|W|region:PE_type:event|display=inline,title}} String optional Fault fault no description Example [[Nazca Plate|Nazca]]-[[South American Plate|South American plate]] String optional Type type no description Unknown optional Areas affected affected countries affected no description Example [[Ica Region]] ([[Pisco, Peru|Pisco]], [[Ica (city)|Ica]] and [[Chincha Alta]]) and [[Lima Region]] ([[San Vicente de Cañete]]) String optional Total damage damages damage cost/extent of property damage Unknown optional Max. intensity intensity no description Unknown optional Peak acceleration pga PGA NN ''[[Peak ground acceleration|g]]'' Unknown optional Peak velocity pgv PGV NN cm/s Unknown optional Tsunami tsunami no description Example flooded part of Lima's Costa Verde highway, and much of Pisco's shore String optional Landslides landslide no description Unknown optional Foreshocks foreshocks no description Unknown optional Aftershocks aftershocks no description Unknown optional Casualties casualties no description Example 519 confirmed dead, 1,366 injured String optional Greatest magnitude maxmagnitude Swarms-only Unknown optional Mean depth meandepth Swarms-only Unknown optional Total events events Swarms-only Unknown optional English variant language engvar en-UK to spell 'Epicentre' Unknown optional Module module embedded misc no description Unknown optional Citations citations no description String optional Related related no description Unknown optional