Where can I find a list of all earthquakes that happened on Earth since 1900?
I need time, longitude/latitude, and power -- preferably in .csv format.
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1$\begingroup$ Maybe at usgs. you have json data format. earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1 $\endgroup$– user12525Jun 7, 2018 at 12:08
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1$\begingroup$ Welcome to EarthScience.SE. Where did you look for these data already on yourself? If you get the information here, you might try OpenData.SE. $\endgroup$– daniel.heydebreckJun 7, 2018 at 12:13
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$\begingroup$ @Universal_learner thanks, I used exactly that website. The only problem I had was that I could get 20000 records at a time only. So I made a little script to get all the relevant data. I'll answer my own question how I did it. $\endgroup$– KristjanJun 7, 2018 at 14:25
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$\begingroup$ You are welcome. That's what I said maybe. Haven't tried the api. xml also $\endgroup$– user12525Jun 7, 2018 at 14:26
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1$\begingroup$ I answered myself with a python script so someone else could use it in future... I hope I'm not breaking any rules answering myself. $\endgroup$– KristjanJun 7, 2018 at 14:28
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Okay so I got the data from https://earthquake.usgs.gov
Since the website only allows to get 20k records at a time I made a little python script that downloads data for each month.
import os
import requests
for x in range(1900,2016):
for y in range(1,13):
url='https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query.csv?starttime='+str(x)+'-'+str(y)+'-31%2023:59:59&endtime='+str(x)+'-'+ str(y+1) +'-31%2023:59:59&minmagnitude=2.5&orderby=time'
print(url)
response = requests.get(url)
with open(os.path.join("C:/Users/kristjag/OneDrive/delo/potresi", "potresi_"+str(x)+"_"+str(y)+".csv"), 'wb') as f:
f.write(response.content)
Code above take some time to finish but when completed you get earthquake data for every month from 1900-2016