Phuket {PtProcess}R Documentation

Phuket Earthquake and Aftershock Sequence

Description

The Phuket earthquake occurred on 26 December 2004 at 00:58:53.45 GMT, with a magnitude of 7.9. The Phuket data frame contains those events (1111) from the PDE Catalogue, within the spatial region 89E–105E and 5S–16N, with magnitude 4 or greater, occurring between midnight on 1 January 2004 and midnight on 1 January 2008 (1461 days later).

Usage

data(Phuket)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

latitude
number of degrees north.
longitude
number of degrees east.
depth
depth of event in kilometres.
magnitude
event magnitude rounded to one decimal place.
year
year of event (numeric vector).
month
month of event, 1 ... 12 (numeric vector).
day
day of event, 1 ... 31 (numeric vector).
hour
hour of event, 0 ... 23 (numeric vector).
minute
minute of event, 0 ... 59 (numeric vector).
second
second of event, 0 ... 59 (numeric vector).
time
number of days (and fractions) from midnight on 1 January 2004.

Source

The data were extracted from the PDE (Preliminary Determination of Epicentres) catalogue provided by the US Geological Survey (ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/pde/).

Examples

data(Phuket)
print(Phuket[1:10,])

[Package PtProcess version 3.1-3 Index]