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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

Source

Earthquake Catalog, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards

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.