1985 Mexico City earthquake

Quality:

1985 Mexico City earthquake - September 19th, 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico. Article “1985 Mexico City earthquake” in English Wikipedia has 99.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 154 references and 20 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Spanish.

In June 2025 the article “1985 Mexico City earthquake” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1985 Mexico City earthquake”, its content was written by 372 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 339 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1180 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #676 in September 2017
• Global: #151 in September 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #551 in September 2017
• Global: #55 in September 2017

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) 1985 Mexico City earthquake		99.7087
2	Spanish (es) Terremoto de México de 1985		95.1955
3	Ukrainian (uk) Землетрус у Мехіко (1985)		60.8874
4	Hebrew (he) רעידת האדמה במקסיקו סיטי (1985)		49.4584
5	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi Kota Meksiko 1985		43.82
6	German (de) Erdbeben von Mexiko-Stadt 1985		39.8892
7	Hungarian (hu) 1985-ös mexikói földrengés		38.0704
8	Chinese (zh) 1985年墨西哥城大地震		34.1251
9	French (fr) Séisme de 1985 à Mexico		33.9903
10	Galician (gl) Terremoto de México de 1985		31.4877

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Terremoto de México de 1985		11 205 837
2	English (en) 1985 Mexico City earthquake		2 521 305
3	French (fr) Séisme de 1985 à Mexico		201 638
4	Portuguese (pt) Sismo da Cidade do México de 1985		107 958
5	Japanese (ja) メキシコ地震 (1985年)		96 966
6	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Мехико (1985)		90 349
7	Italian (it) Terremoto del Messico del 1985		69 483
8	Chinese (zh) 1985年墨西哥城大地震		49 937
9	German (de) Erdbeben von Mexiko-Stadt 1985		48 028
10	Dutch (nl) Aardbeving Mexico 1985		37 750

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Terremoto de México de 1985		14 973
2	English (en) 1985 Mexico City earthquake		6 957
3	French (fr) Séisme de 1985 à Mexico		611
4	Portuguese (pt) Sismo da Cidade do México de 1985		535
5	Italian (it) Terremoto del Messico del 1985		466
6	Japanese (ja) メキシコ地震 (1985年)		333
7	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Мехико (1985)		312
8	German (de) Erdbeben von Mexiko-Stadt 1985		272
9	Chinese (zh) 1985年墨西哥城大地震		252
10	Polish (pl) Trzęsienie ziemi w Meksyku (1985)		154

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1985 Mexico City earthquake		372
2	Spanish (es) Terremoto de México de 1985		334
3	French (fr) Séisme de 1985 à Mexico		75
4	Dutch (nl) Aardbeving Mexico 1985		44
5	Portuguese (pt) Sismo da Cidade do México de 1985		32
6	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Мехико (1985)		32
7	Norwegian (no) Jordskjelvet i Mexico 1985		28
8	Chinese (zh) 1985年墨西哥城大地震		21
9	Japanese (ja) メキシコ地震 (1985年)		19
10	Hebrew (he) רעידת האדמה במקסיקו סיטי (1985)		17

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Terremoto de México de 1985		3
2	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Мехико (1985)		2
3	English (en) 1985 Mexico City earthquake		1
4	Hebrew (he) רעידת האדמה במקסיקו סיטי (1985)		1
5	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi Kota Meksiko 1985		1
6	Chinese (zh) 1985年墨西哥城大地震		1
7	Arabic (ar) زلزال مدينة مكسيكو 1985		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Земетресение в град Мексико (1985)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Terratrèmol de Mèxic de 1985		0
10	Czech (cs) Zemětřesení v Mexico City (1985)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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