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I request to move 1920 Gansu earthquake to 1920 Haiyuan earthquake. The epicenter was in Haiyuan County, Zhongwei, now part of Ningxia. The reason why it was called Kansu earthquake is because Ningxia was merged to Gansu from 1914 to 1928 (see article Ningxia). Kansu is the Wade-Giles form of Gansu, an apparently outdated spelling now. Currently Hanyuan earthquake is a more common name for this earthquake. In Google Scholar, there are 31 hits for "Gansu earthquake" and 175 hits for "Haiyuan earthquake". In Google Book Search, there are 15 hits for "Gansu earthquake" and 53 hits for "Haiyuan earthquake". So I think we should move 1920 Gansu earthquake back to 1920 Haiyuan earthquake. And the current map Image:1920 Gansu earthquake.svg also confuses Gansu with Ningxia. Although it uses a historical map of the Republic of China, the administrative divisions in it were after 1928, not the time when the earthquake occurred. As I said above, in 1920, Ningxia was a part of Gansu, but this map shows Ningxia as a separate province and therefore the epicenter is in Ningxia according to this map. If we really want to use a historical map and use the outdated historical title Gansu earthquake, then at least we should use a map showing the epicenter in Gansu, historically. -- Neo-Jay ( talk) 20:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
The article says that the higher reported magnitudes are down to the media. In fact there are many scientific papers that give it a magnitude of 8.7 (e.g. [1]), although none of them specify precisely which scale they're talking about. Mikenorton ( talk) 13:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Most sources that are not WP mirrors claim this happened at 20:06:53 or 8:06 pm local time. Some make the claim that this is in the UTC+8 zone and do the conversion to 12:06:53 UTC, but this always seems to be done in a way that it implies calculation from the 20:06:53 time. Why does the article state 19:06:53 local time? —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 01:24, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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in List of earthquakes in 1920, it gives a magnitude of 8.3; but it shows 7.8 in the main page. does anyone know how/why? -- Iol_ Iiz zy 14:34, 18 February 2021 (UTC)