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Significant Earthquake Dataset
Description
A data set containing Earthquake that have occured during the period of 1900-2022 with GPS coordinates and magnitudes.
Usage
globalearthquake
Format
A data frame with 98785 rows and 12 variables:
- date_time
Date and time in POSIXct format
- latitude
latitude of the earthquake, from -90° to 90°
- longitude
longitude of the earthquake, from -180° to 180°
- mag
the magnitude of the earthquake, indicating its strenth
- Date
date when the seisme occured
- nbweeks
number of weeks since 1900/01/01
- year
year
- month
month of the year
- month_day
day of the month
- week
week number
- week_day
day of the week from 1 = Sunday to 7 = Saturday
- year_day
day of the year from 1 to 366
Details
This is a compiled version of the full data set available on U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Events (USGS) which is in the public domain.
The data set contains only the earthquake between 1900 and 2022 with a magnitude higher than 5.
Source
Earthquake Catalog, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards