FDSNGetEvents: Download earthquake data from FDSN.

In rFDSN: Get Seismic Data from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks

Description

This function gathers earthquake data from the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks. The available subsetting parameters can be viewed by calling FDSNParameterList.

Usage

FDSNGetEvents(base.url, parameters,verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

base.url	The address of a FDSN server.
parameters	Selection parameters to subset results, see FDSNParameterList for available inputs and examples below for usage.
verbose	If TRUE, print the URL used to gather the earthquake data. Default TRUE.

Value

event

A structure with event location and magnitude information

Author(s)

Daniel C. Bowman [e-mail]

References

http://www.fdsn.org/webservices/

See Also

FDSNParameterList

Examples

## Not run: 

#Get all earthquakes within 2 degrees of Socorro, new Mexico, 
#between 2010 and 2013

#IRIS event server
base.url <- "http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/event/1/"

#Selection criteria
parameters <- list(
    name = c(
    "latitude",
    "longitude",
    "maxradius",
    "start",
    "end"),
    value = c(
    34.068110, #Latitude
    -106.901847, #Longitude
    2, #Degrees from center point
    "2010-01-01", #Start time
    "2014-01-01") #End time
    )

events <- FDSNGetEvents(base.url, parameters)



## End(Not run)

rFDSN documentation built on May 1, 2019, 6:51 p.m.