getIRIS {RSEIS}

get Hypocenters from IRIS web site

Description

Convert hypocenters from the IRIS website and prepare for plotting in GEOmap

Usage

getIRIS(fn, skip=0)
getANSS(fn, skip=2)

Arguments

fn

character, file path name

skip

numeric, number of lines to skip (e.g. for the header)

Details

Reads in a file dumped out by the website selection box.

Value

list:

yr

vector year

dom

vector, day of month

mo

vector, mo

hr

vector, hour

mi

vector, minute

sec

vector, sec

lat

vector, latitude

lon

vector, longitude

z

vector, depth

mag

vector, magnitude

Note

Be careful about headers and lines that need to be skipped.

for IRIS: http://www.iris.washington.edu/data/event/eventsearch.htm

For ANSS: http://www.quake.geo.berkeley.edu/anss/catalog-search.html

For NEIC (yet to be added) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/epic/epic_global.php

Author(s)

Jonathan M. Lees<[e-mail]>

See Also

getjul

Examples

## Not run: 
fn <- "/home/lees/WORK/SENDAI.EVENT/catsearch.8757"

g <- getANSS(fn)
g$jd <- getjul(g$yr, g$mo, g$dom)

## End(Not run)