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Did you know... that despite a magnitude of only 5.8, the 1992 Cairo earthquake was the most destructive to affect Cairo since 1847, killing 545 people, injuring another 6,512, and making 50,000 homeless?
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According to the information on the image page, the picture comes from a printed newspaper originally, which would explain it's poor quality. It has been nominated for deletion on Commons for lack of license information, so it may just disappear anyway. The link in the image file takes you to a pdf in Arabic that google translate has a lot of difficulties with, so it's impossible for me to verify where the image originally appeared. Perhaps the uploader at Commons will clarify things. Mikenorton (talk) 22:23, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, thanks for your comment. I am a native Arabic speaker and researching the earthquake. The image is of the earthquake aftermath and the source site is an archival collaboration between the Alexandria Library (a state-owned institution) and the CEDEJ, a French research center based in Cairo, so their information is accurate. I have also updated the licensing info on the photograph and should not be deleted. 84.164.241.70 (talk) 09:55, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The name of the earthquake Cairo Earthquake is inaccurate as
1- It did not originate in Cairo, but in the desert near the village of Dahshur, Giza. Thus scientific papers call it the Dahshur Earthquake
2- It affected tens of cities and villages in 16 governorates (states) in Egypt, and not just Cairo.
therefore I propose the title be changed to Dahshur (Egypt) October 1992 Earthquake — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ypedia1 (talk • contribs) 10:01, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've just gone through all the papers shown for this event as listed using the ISC link in the infobox - the results show 5 that use Dahshur against 11 that use Cairo, so I see no reason to change the current title. Mikenorton (talk) 16:43, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
