Quakenator

This is an example program that was modified from a SciPy Cookbook example. The original example was a simple plot of some cities, we extended this to show how to use Python to access web content. The USGS provides data feeds of recent earthquakes.

Functionality

• Download the CSV file
• Read in the CSV
• Make arrays of lat & long & magnitude
• Set a color map for magnitude
• Initialize map
• Plot the data

Example