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Importing Earthquake

Data from the Internet

Introduction
 

This application plots the location of all earthquakes of magnitude M1 or greater in the US over the last 7 days.  It uses worldwide earthquake data downloaded from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/

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Download Earthquake Data
 
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Process Earthquake Data
 

Parse data into a Matrx
 
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Remove all data apart from mainland US
 
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Import USA mapping data
 
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Plot US Map and Location of Earthquakes Colored by Magnitude
 

US Map
 
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Earthqake locations colored by magnitude
 
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Color Bar
 
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