Exercise/Example: the biggest Earthquake in the UK this Century
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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:
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": "2021-01-19",
"orderby": "time-asc",
},
)
quakes.text[0:100]
'{"type":"FeatureCollection","metadata":{"generated":1659971962000,"url":"https://earthquake.usgs.gov'
Your exercise¶
Determine the location of the largest magnitude earthquake in the UK this century.
You can break this exercise down into several subtasks. You’ll need to:
Load the data¶
Get the text of the web result
Parse the data as JSON
Investigate the data¶
Understand how the data is structured into dictionaries and lists
Where is the magnitude?
Where is the place description or coordinates?
Search through the data¶
Program a search through all the quakes to find the biggest quake
Find the place of the biggest quake
Visualise your answer¶
Form a URL for an online map service at that latitude and longitude: look back at the introductory example
Display that image