Talk:San Francisco earthquake of 1906

I wrote this article (except 5 words) in March 2010 on Wikinfo based on the book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester. --Charles Marean, Jr 23:34, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

It does not mention how strong this quake was on the Richter scale and seems a bit imprecise about the epicenter. "In the Pacfic Ocean" is somewhat vague. How far from SF, and in what direction? Sandy Harris 00:48, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

I wonder why. I think it was on the cover of the book and they at first thought the center was to the north of the city and then they thought it was to the south. I thought I included that. I gave the book away months ago. I just looked up what they think now online: 8.3 and two miles west. I’ll add that.--Charles Marean, Jr 08:48, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

When I added the info, after I clicked save, the word "from" was somehow in the text. I believe it is possible someone added that via the internet, or by somehow hiding an edit from the edit history. Therefore, that sort of thing could explain why the quake's magnitude was missing from the article. It was not necessarily by who Wikipedia would call an administrator, since maybe the edit could have been changed somewhere along the internet during transmission. I doubt very much I did the "from" typo, and I believe I did include the quakes magnitude in the article. I think maybe I should mention this security problem this suggests.--Charles Marean, Jr 14:57, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

It appears likely that you could have copied it directly from the source since they used the word "from." I think we are okay. D. Matt Innis 17:03, 6 April 2011 (UTC)