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USGS Earthquake Catalog

USGS Earthquake Catalog (ANSS ComCat): earthquakes worldwide.

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Leaves your machineQueries onlyWhat you ask USGS Earthquake Catalog for: the data, places, periods or search words of each load.

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What is in it

Earthquakes worldwide from the ANSS Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat): time, location, depth, magnitude and type of every event, from 1900 (complete for small events in recent decades). Good for frequency–magnitude, aftershock and regional seismicity studies. Public domain.

In e2er's words, from the source's definition.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search

Terms of use for the data

USGS-authored or produced data are in the U.S. public domain; USGS asks that proper credit be given.

Full terms · usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits

The terms as e2er records them

U.S. public domain (https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits): "USGS-authored or produced data and information are considered to be in the U.S. Public Domain." USGS asks "that proper credit be given". Cite the catalogue: U.S. Geological Survey. (2017). Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog. U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7MS3QZH

Listed with the open datasets: ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), U.S. Geological Survey

How to cite

U.S. Geological Survey. (2017). Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog. U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7MS3QZH

Where it lives

Built into e2er.

Templates that can use it

Descriptive data study Empirical study Empirical study, pre-registered Event study in finance Policy evaluation (difference-in-differences)Spatial analysis Text analysis Time series and forecasting

Technical details

Code in e2er: src/modules/data/sources/usgs.py

e2er-data usgs events: Earthquakes in a period, e.g. --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-02-01 --min-magnitude 4.5 --bbox -125,32,-114,42.

Description

Data model

Discipline: General
Method family: not specified
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Research stage: Data acquisition
Authors: e2er authors (Software, Methodology)
Usage: 1 published study · templates that can use it: 8
Source: e2er repository · src/modules/data/sources/usgs.py · @d8fd8ab
Record: connector:usgs · JSON

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