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Date of Antioch Earthquake and Death Toll
[edit]OK, so I have found a list of several different dates for this earthquake. And I realise that different calendar systems exist for dating things, but on Wikipedia ALONE, there are three different dates listed, not to mention two different death tolls. In the interest of consistency, can anybody weigh in as to the actual date? Can anybody find a good source for this anywhere?
List of natural disasters by death toll lists it as 20 May with 250 000 deaths.
526 Antioch earthquake lists it as 31 May, also with 250 000 deaths.
526 lists it as 19 May with 300,000 deaths.
This website lists it as happening on 29 May, which does little to help the matter: http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/526/may_29_526_30347.html
The 526 Antioch earthquake page does list a footnote, but the footnote itself lists a range of dates from 20-29 May and a range of deaths from 250 000 to 300 000, though the majority of the original sources quoted tended toward the 250 000 bit.
I am inclined to change all the pages based on the footnote given in 526 Antioch earthquake, but this would result in a range of dates rather than a single one. How should this be handled?
Raoulduke25 (talk) 13:54, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
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