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Instituto Geogràphica Nacional (IGN) - Earthquake Data 🌏

This repo contains data from the IGN website here:

https://www.ign.es/web/en/ign/portal/ultimos-terremotos/-/ultimos-terremotos/

Along with a script to pull or update the data with the latest day(s) entries.

An example project with a draft paper, notebooks, figures and interactive plots is on Curvenote here.

Purpose

This dataset has been collected here to make it easier to access data relating to the (ongoing) seismic and volcanic crisis on La Palma, Islas Canarias. 🌋

The dataset contains all earthquake data on the IGN feed, so data points may be from anywhere in Spanish territory. Filter appropriately for data on La Palma.

Contents

data.json, data.csv - data files up to date as of the last commit

main.py - command line script to scrape and update the local data. To run this:

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python main.py --help

License

Code is released under an MIT license. Data is taken from the IGN website under Spanish Re-use of Public Sector Information (RISP) rules which allow distribution under the same conditions.

See more in LICENSE.md

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