aio-geojson-usgs-earthquakes

python-aio-geojson-usgs-earthquakes

This library provides convenient async access to U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program feeds.

Installation

pip install aio-geojson-usgs-earthquakes

Usage

See below for examples of how this library can be used. After instantiating a particular class - feed or feed manager - and supply the required parameters, you can call update to retrieve the feed data. The return value will be a tuple of a status code and the actual data in the form of a list of feed entries specific to the selected feed.

Status Codes

• OK: Update went fine and data was retrieved. The library may still return empty data, for example because no entries fulfilled the filter criteria.
• OK_NO_DATA: Update went fine but no data was retrieved, for example because the server indicated that there was not update since the last request.
• ERROR: Something went wrong during the update

Parameters

Parameter	Description
home_coordinates	Coordinates (tuple of latitude/longitude)

Supported Feeds

Category	Feed
Past Hour - Significant Earthquakes	past_hour_significant_earthquakes
Past Hour - M4.5+ Earthquakes	past_hour_m45_earthquakes
Past Hour - M2.5+ Earthquakes	past_hour_m25_earthquakes
Past Hour - M1.0+ Earthquakes	past_hour_m10_earthquakes
Past Hour - All Earthquakes	past_hour_all_earthquakes
Past Day - Significant Earthquakes	past_day_significant_earthquakes
Past Day - M4.5+ Earthquakes	past_day_m45_earthquakes
Past Day - M2.5+ Earthquakes	past_day_m25_earthquakes
Past Day - M1.0+ Earthquakes	past_day_m10_earthquakes
Past Day - All Earthquakes	past_day_all_earthquakes
Past 7 Days - Significant Earthquakes	past_week_significant_earthquakes
Past 7 Days - M4.5+ Earthquakes	past_week_m45_earthquakes
Past 7 Days - M2.5+ Earthquakes	past_week_m25_earthquakes
Past 7 Days - M1.0+ Earthquakes	past_week_m10_earthquakes
Past 7 Days - All Earthquakes	past_week_all_earthquakes
Past 30 Days - Significant Earthquakes	past_month_significant_earthquakes
Past 30 Days - M4.5+ Earthquakes	past_month_m45_earthquakes
Past 30 Days - M2.5+ Earthquakes	past_month_m25_earthquakes
Past 30 Days - M1.0+ Earthquakes	past_month_m10_earthquakes
Past 30 Days - All Earthquakes	past_month_all_earthquakes

Supported Filters

Filter		Description
Radius	filter_radius	Radius in kilometers around the home coordinates in which events from feed are included.
Minimum Magnitude	filter_minimum_magnitude	Minimum magnitude as float value. Only event with a magnitude equal or above this value are included.

Example

import asyncio
from aiohttp import ClientSession
from aio_geojson_usgs_earthquakes import UsgsEarthquakeHazardsProgramFeed
async def main() -> None:
    async with ClientSession() as websession:    
        # Home Coordinates: Latitude: 21.3, Longitude: -157.8
        # Feed: Past Day - All Earthquakes
        # Filter radius: 500 km
        # Filter minimum magnitude: 4.0
        feed = UsgsEarthquakeHazardsProgramFeed(websession,
                                                (21.3, -157.8),
                                                'past_day_all_earthquakes',
                                                filter_radius=5000, 
                                                filter_minimum_magnitude=4.0)
        status, entries = await feed.update()
        print(status)
        print(entries)
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())

Feed entry properties

Each feed entry is populated with the following properties:

Name	Description	Feed attribute
geometries	All geometry details of this entry.	geometry
coordinates	Best coordinates (latitude, longitude) of this entry.	geometry
distance_to_home	Distance in km of this entry to the home coordinates.	n/a
attribution	Attribution of the feed.	n/a
external_id	The unique public identifier for this entry.	id
title	Title of this entry.	title
place	Description of the place where this earthquakes occurred.	place
magnitude	Magnitude of this earthquake.	mag
time	Date and time when this event occurred.	time
updated	Date and time when this entry was last updated.	updated
alert	Alert level of this entry ("green", "yellow", "orange", "red").	alert
type	Type of this seismic event ("earthquake", "quarry").	type
status	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human ("automatic", "reviewed", "deleted").	status

Feed Manager

The Feed Manager helps managing feed updates over time, by notifying the consumer of the feed about new feed entries, updates and removed entries compared to the last feed update.

• If the current feed update is the first one, then all feed entries will be reported as new. The feed manager will keep track of all feed entries' external IDs that it has successfully processed.
• If the current feed update is not the first one, then the feed manager will produce three sets:
  • Feed entries that were not in the previous feed update but are in the current feed update will be reported as new.
  • Feed entries that were in the previous feed update and are still in the current feed update will be reported as to be updated.
  • Feed entries that were in the previous feed update but are not in the current feed update will be reported to be removed.
• If the current update fails, then all feed entries processed in the previous feed update will be reported to be removed.

After a successful update from the feed, the feed manager provides two different dates:

• last_update will be the timestamp of the last update from the feed irrespective of whether it was successful or not.
• last_update_successful will be the timestamp of the last successful update from the feed. This date may be useful if the consumer of this library wants to treat intermittent errors from feed updates differently.
• last_timestamp (optional, depends on the feed data) will be the latest timestamp extracted from the feed data. This requires that the underlying feed data actually contains a suitable date. This date may be useful if the consumer of this library wants to process feed entries differently if they haven't actually been updated.