2004 Chūetsu earthquake

Quality:

Chūetsu Earthquake - earthquake occurred in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on October 23, 2004. Article “2004 Chūetsu earthquake” in English Wikipedia has 50.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “2004 Chūetsu earthquake”, its content was written by 127 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 616 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 202 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1837 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #344 in October 2004
• Global: #89 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #78404 in March 2011
• Global: #3514 in March 2011

There are 18 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	Japanese (ja) 新潟県中越地震		80.2566
2	Korean (ko) 니가타현 주에쓰 지진		79.7234
3	English (en) 2004 Chūetsu earthquake		50.3295
4	Thai (th) แผ่นดินไหวในชูเอ็ตสึ จังหวัดนีงาตะ พ.ศ. 2547		48.2798
5	German (de) Chūetsu-Erdbeben 2004		29.5189
6	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Тюэцу (2004)		27.2424
7	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi Chūetsu 2004		26.7583
8	Chinese (zh) 新潟縣中越地震		24.3111
9	Portuguese (pt) Sismo de Chūetsu de 2004		23.2016
10	Malay (ms) Gempa bumi Chūetsu 2004		22.1189

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 新潟県中越地震		3 764 294
2	English (en) 2004 Chūetsu earthquake		432 624
3	Chinese (zh) 新潟縣中越地震		70 407
4	Korean (ko) 니가타현 주에쓰 지진		25 779
5	German (de) Chūetsu-Erdbeben 2004		25 016
6	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Chuetsū de 2004		20 755
7	Thai (th) แผ่นดินไหวในชูเอ็ตสึ จังหวัดนีงาตะ พ.ศ. 2547		18 664
8	French (fr) Séisme de 2004 de Chūetsu		17 884
9	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi Chūetsu 2004		12 155
10	Finnish (fi) Chūetsun maanjäristys 2004		8 157

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 新潟県中越地震		7 087
2	English (en) 2004 Chūetsu earthquake		1 583
3	Chinese (zh) 新潟縣中越地震		380
4	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi Chūetsu 2004		109
5	German (de) Chūetsu-Erdbeben 2004		102
6	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Chuetsū de 2004		85
7	Korean (ko) 니가타현 주에쓰 지진		72
8	Vietnamese (vi) Động đất Chūetsu, Niigata 2004		68
9	Thai (th) แผ่นดินไหวในชูเอ็ตสึ จังหวัดนีงาตะ พ.ศ. 2547		49
10	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Тюэцу (2004)		40

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 新潟県中越地震		272
2	English (en) 2004 Chūetsu earthquake		127
3	French (fr) Séisme de 2004 de Chūetsu		50
4	Chinese (zh) 新潟縣中越地震		33
5	Korean (ko) 니가타현 주에쓰 지진		30
6	German (de) Chūetsu-Erdbeben 2004		22
7	Thai (th) แผ่นดินไหวในชูเอ็ตสึ จังหวัดนีงาตะ พ.ศ. 2547		16
8	Finnish (fi) Chūetsun maanjäristys 2004		15
9	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Chuetsū de 2004		9
10	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Тюэцу (2004)		8

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	Japanese (ja) 新潟県中越地震		9
2	Vietnamese (vi) Động đất Chūetsu, Niigata 2004		1
3	German (de) Chūetsu-Erdbeben 2004		0
4	English (en) 2004 Chūetsu earthquake		0
5	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Chuetsū de 2004		0
6	Persian (fa) زمین‌لرزه ۲۰۰۴ چواتسو		0
7	Finnish (fi) Chūetsun maanjäristys 2004		0
8	French (fr) Séisme de 2004 de Chūetsu		0
9	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi Chūetsu 2004		0
10	Korean (ko) 니가타현 주에쓰 지진		0

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

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