R: Earthquakes in 2015

earthquakes {MESS} | R Documentation

## Earthquakes in 2015

### Description

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

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/

### Examples

    data(earthquakes)
    with(earthquakes, place[which.max(mag)])

[Package MESS version 0.5.9 Index]