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encyclopedic topics, but not all events warrant an encyclopedia article of their own." Historical notability is a matter of opinion, left to you, me and the other participants in this discussion. I don't see anything historically notable about the July 2006 Sulawesi earthquake, regardless of how well it was covered at the time. Some minor quakes are historically significant -- and perhaps there's something about this one that sets in apart from others, such as the
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Bear in mind that on average, 134 quakes of magnitude 6.0-6.9 occur somewhere in the world each year, most of them being insignificant. They always get news coverage one way or another, but this quake has no historical significance at all, and I think the article is just simply
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