2010 Canterbury earthquake

Quality:

2010 Canterbury earthquake - September 2010 earthquake in New Zealand. Article “2010 Canterbury earthquake” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “2010 Canterbury earthquake”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 603 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1064 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #6 in September 2010
• Global: #36 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #606 in September 2010
• Global: #4341 in September 2010

There are 26 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, 2026 (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) 2010 Canterbury earthquake		95.7917
2	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Кентербери (2010)		95.4615
3	Ukrainian (uk) Землетрус в Кентербері (2010)		87.4879
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) 2010 nî Canterbury tē-tāng		55.1376
5	Malay (ms) Gempa bumi Canterbury 2010		50.2582
6	Hungarian (hu) 2010-es canterburyi földrengés		41.3914
7	Chinese (zh) 2010年坎特伯雷地震		38.6993
8	Simple English (simple) 2010 Canterbury earthquake		38.0355
9	German (de) Darfield-Erdbeben von 2010		36.4258
10	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Christchurch de 2010		33.2995

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2010 Canterbury earthquake		1 450 718
2	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー地震 (2010年)		83 032
3	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Кентербери (2010)		65 209
4	German (de) Darfield-Erdbeben von 2010		53 203
5	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Christchurch de 2010		36 793
6	Chinese (zh) 2010年坎特伯雷地震		32 838
7	Italian (it) Terremoto di Christchurch del 2010		15 236
8	French (fr) Séisme de 2010 en Nouvelle-Zélande		13 332
9	Persian (fa) زمین‌لرزه ۲۰۱۰ کانتربری		13 185
10	Danish (da) Jordskælvet i Christchurch 2010		13 088

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2010 Canterbury earthquake		3 826
2	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Christchurch de 2010		162
3	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー地震 (2010年)		151
4	Chinese (zh) 2010年坎特伯雷地震		148
5	German (de) Darfield-Erdbeben von 2010		108
6	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Кентербери (2010)		95
7	Danish (da) Jordskælvet i Christchurch 2010		79
8	Persian (fa) زمین‌لرزه ۲۰۱۰ کانتربری		72
9	Italian (it) Terremoto di Christchurch del 2010		42
10	Polish (pl) Trzęsienie ziemi w Canterbury (2010)		30

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2010 Canterbury earthquake		262
2	Russian (ru) Землетрясение в Кентербери (2010)		45
3	German (de) Darfield-Erdbeben von 2010		35
4	Japanese (ja) カンタベリー地震 (2010年)		26
5	Italian (it) Terremoto di Christchurch del 2010		25
6	Hungarian (hu) 2010-es canterburyi földrengés		24
7	Danish (da) Jordskælvet i Christchurch 2010		18
8	French (fr) Séisme de 2010 en Nouvelle-Zélande		18
9	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Christchurch de 2010		17
10	Vietnamese (vi) Động đất Canterbury 2010		16

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	Hungarian (hu) 2010-es canterburyi földrengés		2
2	Korean (ko) 2010년 캔터베리 지진		2
3	Belarusian (be) Землетрасенне ў Кентэрберы (2010)		1
4	Finnish (fi) Canterburyn maanjäristys 2010		1
5	Arabic (ar) زلزال كانتربيري 2010		0
6	Catalan (ca) Terratrèmol de Canterbury de 2010		0
7	Danish (da) Jordskælvet i Christchurch 2010		0
8	German (de) Darfield-Erdbeben von 2010		0
9	English (en) 2010 Canterbury earthquake		0
10	Spanish (es) Terremoto de Christchurch de 2010		0

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

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