R: get Hypocenters from IRIS web site

getIRIS {RSEIS} | R Documentation

## get Hypocenters from IRIS web site

### Description

Convert hypocenters from the IRIS website and prepare for plotting in GEOmap

### Usage

    getIRIS(fn, skip=0)
    getANSS(fn, skip=2)

### Arguments

`fn` | character, file path name
`skip` | numeric, number of lines to skip (e.g. for the header)

### Details

Reads in a file dumped out by the website selection box.

### Value

list:

`yr` | vector year
`dom` | vector, day of month
`mo` | vector, mo
`hr` | vector, hour
`mi` | vector, minute
`sec` | vector, sec
`lat` | vector, latitude
`lon` | vector, longitude
`z` | vector, depth
`mag` | vector, magnitude

### Note

Be careful about headers and lines that need to be skipped.

for IRIS: http://www.iris.washington.edu/data/event/eventsearch.htm

For ANSS: http://www.quake.geo.berkeley.edu/anss/catalog-search.html

For NEIC (yet to be added) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/epic/epic_global.php

### Author(s)

Jonathan M. Lees<jonathan.lees@unc.edu>

### See Also

getjul

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    fn <- "/home/lees/WORK/SENDAI.EVENT/catsearch.8757"

    g <- getANSS(fn)
    g$jd <- getjul(g$yr, g$mo, g$dom)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package RSEIS version 3.7-4 Index]