Earthquake

Quality:

Earthquake - result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Article “Earthquake” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 49^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

sim

The 105^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 449^th most popular in all topics.

The 415^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 3302^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3815^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5900^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Earthquake”, its content was written by 213 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (105^th place) and edited by 8681 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (415^th place).

The article is cited 654 times in Simple English Wikipedia (1734^th place) and cited 53050 times in all languages (3091^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in June 2019
• Global: #16 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in June 2015
• Global: #20 in February 2023

There are 54 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	Korean (ko) 지진		98.3602
2	Swedish (sv) Jordbävning		91.0298
3	Hebrew (he) רעידת אדמה		88.4195
4	English (en) Earthquake		87.7563
5	Turkish (tr) Deprem		87.3353
6	Esperanto (eo) Tertremo		83.6939
7	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi		79.7521
8	Croatian (hr) Potres		79.3009
9	Greek (el) Σεισμός		74.7443
10	Galician (gl) Terremoto		72.847

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Earthquake		39 200 310
2	Spanish (es) Terremoto		23 584 084
3	Japanese (ja) 地震		7 147 593
4	Russian (ru) Землетрясение		5 968 324
5	French (fr) Séisme		5 924 434
6	Indonesian (id) Gempa bumi		5 534 608
7	Arabic (ar) زلزال		5 081 064
8	German (de) Erdbeben		4 502 947
9	Italian (it) Terremoto		4 484 051
10	Thai (th) แผ่นดินไหว		3 305 947

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) Earthquake		67 855
2	Spanish (es) Terremoto		38 020
3	Japanese (ja) 地震		14 054
4	German (de) Erdbeben		8 710
5	Russian (ru) Землетрясение		6 922
6	Italian (it) Terremoto		6 552
7	French (fr) Séisme		5 130
8	Portuguese (pt) Sismo		4 322
9	Chinese (zh) 地震		3 532
10	Polish (pl) Trzęsienie ziemi		2 811

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Earthquake		1 325
2	German (de) Erdbeben		630
3	French (fr) Séisme		580
4	Spanish (es) Terremoto		511
5	Italian (it) Terremoto		448
6	Dutch (nl) Aardbeving		365
7	Hebrew (he) רעידת אדמה		339
8	Japanese (ja) 地震		339
9	Russian (ru) Землетрясение		311
10	Portuguese (pt) Sismo		229

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) 地震		8
2	Hebrew (he) רעידת אדמה		4
3	Spanish (es) Terremoto		2
4	Hungarian (hu) Földrengés		2
5	Catalan (ca) Terratrèmol		1
6	English (en) Earthquake		1
7	Basque (eu) Lurrikara		1
8	French (fr) Séisme		1
9	Galician (gl) Terremoto		1
10	Croatian (hr) Potres		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information