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## Exercise/Example: the biggest Earthquake in the UK this Century¶

### The Problem¶

GeoJSON is a json-based file format for sharing geographic data. One example dataset is the USGS earthquake data:

In [1]:
import requests
quakes = requests.get("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query.geojson",
params={
'starttime': "2000-01-01",
"maxlatitude": "58.723",
"minlatitude": "50.008",
"maxlongitude": "1.67",
"minlongitude": "-9.756",
"minmagnitude": "1",
"endtime": "2018-10-11",
"orderby": "time-asc"}
)

In [2]:
quakes.text[0:100]

Out[2]:
'{"type":"FeatureCollection","metadata":{"generated":1548076002000,"url":"https://earthquake.usgs.gov'

Your exercise: determine the location of the largest magnitude earthquake in the UK this century.

You'll need to:

• Get the text of the web result
• Parse the data as JSON
• Understand how the data is structured into dictionaries and lists
• Where is the magnitude?
• Where is the place description or coordinates?
• Program a search through all the quakes to find the biggest quake
• Find the place of the biggest quake
• Form a URL for an online map service at that latitude and longitude: look back at the introductory example
• Display that image