USGS Earthquake Data

This data set is extracted as Tweets from the US Geological Survey (USGS). The BRIDGES API extracts the quake data records periodically and retains the most recent 50000 quakes in a database. These are accessed by the BRIDGES client, reformatted into a list of objects for use in assignments.

See also

This tutorial gives an introduction to the usage of USGS Earthquake data. You can find the complete documentation of the features in the Doxygen documentation of the following classes and functions:

1. EarthquakeUSGS [Java] [C++] [Python]
2. GetEarthquakeUSGSData() [Java] [C++] [Python]

Accessing Earthquake Data: An Example BRIDGES program

The program snippet below illustrates how to access the earthquake data.

• Copy/paste the code into your environment and compile.
• Assuming all your code is correct and it compiles correctly, the code will print a record of the data to the console.