Process and Useful Links: 2013 10 27 Hunting for Earthquake Data with Jie Zhang

Process

Here are the basic steps we used to discover what data we needed:

1. We searched Google using the terms stark freedman 2001 earthquake

2. The first three links were the most interesting, especially #2 and #3 which were links to two papers:

• What is the Chance of an Earthquake? by Freedman and Stark

• Testing earthquake predictions by Luen and Stark with a direct link to the PDF here:

  PDF of Testing earthquake predictions This paper is from 2008 and it's the most relevant to us.

3. We read the paper and discovered that they used the Harvard Global CMT Catalog and they provide the data in ASCII format for direct download.

4. We wrote a IPython notebook (which also generated a script ) which will download the gzip compressed ndk-formatted data of the full data set from the CMT Catalog files page at http://www.globalcmt.org/

5. NEXT STEPS: We should do the same for the SCEC data: http://www.one-tab.com/page/EBoWiHe1TF-kOU1G1knTBg (as shared with http://www.one-tab.com/) which is in a gzip-compressed [tarball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)

6. NEXT STEPS: Once we download the data, we need to uncompress, extract, and parse the data into a pandas time-series data format, such as described in the Timeseries with pandas tutorial and the pandas documentation.

Links

And here are some of the links we found that will be helpful: