nwip: Earthquakes of the Norwesth of the Iberian Peninsula

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

Description

This data set corresponds to the earthquakes occurred in the Norwesth of the Iberian Peninsula, from 25/November/1924 to 31/July/2010. The area is limited by the coordinates 41 N – 44 N and 6 W – 10 W, involving the autonomic region of Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 3491 observations on the following 10 variables, corresponding to the earthquake epicenters and time of ocurrence.

day

Day

month

Month

year

Year

hour

Hour

minute

Minute

second

second

latitude

Latitude in degrees

longitude

Longitude in degrees

depth

Depth in km

magnitude

Magnitude in Richter Scale

Source

The data catalogue has been obtained from the National Geographic Institute (IGN) of Spain. The web page is www.ign.es.

References

Rueda, J., and J. Mezcua (2001) Sismicidad, sismotectonica y peligrosidad sismica en Galicia, IGN Technical Publication 35.

Quintela-del-Rio, A. and Estevez-Perez, G. (2012) Nonparametric Kernel Distribution Function Estimation with kerdiest: An R Package for Bandwidth Choice and Applications, Journal of Statistical Software 50(8), pp. 1-21. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v50/i08/.

Examples

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