Earthquakes in 2015

Information on earthquakes worldwide in 2015 with a magnitude greater than 3 on the Richter scale. The variables are just a subset of the variables available at the source

Format

A data frame with 19777 observations on the following 22 variables.

time

a factor with time of the earthquake

latitude

a numeric vector giving the decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes

longitude

a numeric vector giving the decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes

depth

Depth of the event in kilometers

mag

The magnitude for the event

place

a factor giving a textual description of named geographic region near to the event.

type

a factor with levels earthquake mining explosion rock burst

Source

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Examples

data(earthquakes)
with(earthquakes, place[which.max(mag)])
#> [1] 48km W of Illapel, Chile
#> 15261 Levels: 0km E of Cibinong, Indonesia ... Xinjiang-Xizang border region