Talk:1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami

Size of the sector collapse

The size of the sector collapse that caused the tsunami has been estimated as about double that of the one that triggered the lateral blast at Mount St Helens in 1980. However, more recent studies (Karstens et al. 2019), based on 3D seismic reflection data have shown that a large part of the mapped deposit came from remobilised seafloor sediment becoming entrained in the landslide as it moved. That paper states "By distinguishing between gradual deformation and catastrophic failure, the volume of the rapidly moving phase of the Ritter collapse (2.4 km3) may have been even smaller than the 2.7 km3 calculated for the 1980 Mount St. Helens sector collapse using a similar approach (Moore et al., 1981), which questions whether the 1888 Ritter sector collapse should be classified as the largest historic sector collapse." Mikenorton (talk) 21:31, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 11:34, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Dora the Axe-plorer (talk · contribs) 13:02, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: TheNuggeteer (talk · contribs) 10:52, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Will review this article this week. Thanks, 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 10:52, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

  • Link New Guinea, Umboi, Sakar and New Britain, and remove the links in the body.
Done Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:10, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Link the islands in the lead. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 10:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Background

  • Don't abbreviate the first convert template.
Done Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:10, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't seem done. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 10:43, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eruption and collapse

  • Explain or link what is a "phreatic explosion".
  • I can't load source 8.
  • Link the website of source 7; there seems to be a link.
Done Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:10, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note source 7 is a journal, not a website. Sciencedirect is the database and Elsevier is publisher which I've linked Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:10, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All are done. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 10:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tsunami

  • "There are no exact" change are to is.
  • "no-longer" remove dash.
  • "At Finschhafen a witness" add comma after the town name.
  • "At a reef near Madang was exposed" this needs corrections.
Done Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 23:10, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All of them are done. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 10:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article is pretty good, but it needs some corrections. Thanks, 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 12:19, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dora the Axe-plorer: ping. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 12:19, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @TheNuggeteer, you may access source 8 via this archive Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 22:24, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Btw the article jumps between spelling the units "meters" or "m", I've gone with abbreviating it for simplicity and standardization. I hope that's not an issue but I'll inform u because it's raised in this review Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 22:28, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, but I like not abbreviating the first convert template in an article so it can show what it means. This doesn't seem like an issue, so the only issue here is the lead one. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 10:46, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are readers going to interpret m/ft for something else other than units of measuring length? That should not be a problem at all and mixed formatting is not recommended. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 11:08, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok the island names have been linked Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 11:18, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Everything seems okay. Passing. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 11:33, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Short lead

@Dora the Axe-plorer: Is there any way the lead of the article can be expanded? It's particularly short for a Good Article, and leaves out a fair amount of interesting and notable details from the background and tsunami sections described in the body. Cheers! Johnson524 12:51, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Johnson, thanks for highlighting this. I'll work on the lede over the next few days. Dora the Axe-plorer (explore) 14:23, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1888_Ritter_Island_eruption_and_tsunami