obspy.core.event.origin.Origin

class Origin(force_resource_id=True, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: obspy.core.event.base._event_type_class_factory.<locals>.AbstractEventTypeWithResourceID

This class represents the focal time and geographical location of an earthquake hypocenter, as well as additional meta-information. Origin can have objects of type OriginUncertainty and Arrival as child elements.

Parameters

  • resource_id (ResourceIdentifier) – Resource identifier of Origin.

  • force_resource_id (bool, optional) – If set to False, the automatic initialization of resource_id attribute in case it is not specified will be skipped.

  • time (UTCDateTime) – Focal time.

  • time_errors (QuantityError) – AttribDict containing error quantities.

  • longitude (float) – Hypocenter longitude, with respect to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) reference system. Unit: deg

  • longitude_errors (QuantityError) – AttribDict containing error quantities.

  • latitude (float) – Hypocenter latitude, with respect to the WGS84 reference system. Unit: deg

  • latitude_errors (QuantityError) – AttribDict containing error quantities.

  • depth (float, optional) – Depth of hypocenter with respect to the nominal sea level given by the WGS84 geoid. Positive values indicate hypocenters below sea level. For shallow hypocenters, the depth value can be negative. Note: Other standards use different conventions for depth measurement. As an example, GSE2.0, defines depth with respect to the local surface. If event data is converted from other formats to QuakeML, depth values may have to be modified accordingly. Unit: m

  • depth_errors (QuantityError) – AttribDict containing error quantities.

  • depth_type (str, optional) – Type of depth determination. See OriginDepthType for allowed values.

  • time_fixed (bool, optional) – True if focal time was kept fixed for computation of the Origin.

  • epicenter_fixed (bool, optional) – True if epicenter was kept fixed for computation of Origin.

  • reference_system_id (ResourceIdentifier) – Identifies the reference system used for hypocenter determination. This is only necessary if a modified version of the standard (with local extensions) is used that provides a non-standard coordinate system.

  • method_id (ResourceIdentifier) – Identifies the method used for locating the event.

  • earth_model_id (ResourceIdentifier) – Identifies the earth model used in method_id.

  • arrivals (list of Arrival, optional) – List of arrivals associated with the origin.

  • composite_times (list of CompositeTime, optional) – Supplementary information on time of rupture start. Complex descriptions of focal times of historic events are possible, see description of the CompositeTime type. Note that even if compositeTime is used, the mandatory time attribute has to be set, too. It has to be set to the single point in time (with uncertainties allowed) that is most characteristic for the event.

  • quality (OriginQuality, optional) – Additional parameters describing the quality of an Origin determination.

  • origin_type (str, optional) – Describes the origin type. See OriginType for allowed values.

  • origin_uncertainty (OriginUncertainty, optional) – Describes the location uncertainties of an origin.

  • region (str, optional) – Can be used to describe the geographical region of the epicenter location. Useful if an event has multiple origins from different agencies, and these have different region designations. Note that an event-wide region can be defined in the description attribute of an Event object. The user has to take care that this information corresponds to the region attribute of the preferred Origin.

  • evaluation_mode (str, optional) – Evaluation mode of Origin. See EvaluationMode for allowed values.

  • evaluation_status (str, optional) – Evaluation status of Origin. See EvaluationStatus for allowed values.

  • comments (list of Comment, optional) – Additional comments.

  • creation_info (CreationInfo, optional) – Creation information used to describe author, version, and creation time.

Example

>>> from obspy.core.event import Origin
>>> origin = Origin()
>>> origin.resource_id = 'smi:ch.ethz.sed/origin/37465'
>>> origin.time = UTCDateTime(0)
>>> origin.latitude = 12
>>> origin.latitude_errors.uncertainty = 0.01
>>> origin.latitude_errors.confidence_level = 95.0
>>> origin.longitude = 42
>>> origin.depth_type = 'from location'
>>> print(origin)  
Origin
    resource_id: ResourceIdentifier(id="smi:ch.ethz.sed/...")
           time: UTCDateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0)
      longitude: 42.0
       latitude: 12.0 [confidence_level=95.0, uncertainty=0.01]
     depth_type: ...'from location'

Note

For handling additional information not covered by the QuakeML standard and how to output it to QuakeML see the ObsPy Tutorial.

Attributes

defaults

do_not_warn_on

item

key

readonly

warn_on_non_default_key

Public Methods

clear

Clear the class :return:

copy

get

items

keys

pop

If key is not found, d is returned if given, otherwise KeyError is raised.

popitem

as a 2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.

setdefault

update

values

Private Methods

Warning

Private methods are mainly for internal/developer use and their API might change without notice.

Origin._cast_type(key, value)

Cast type of value to type required in _types dict.

Parameters

  • key (str) – The key from __setattr__.

  • value – The value being set to key.

Returns

value cast to correct type.

Origin._pretty_str(priorized_keys=[], min_label_length=16)

Return better readable string representation of AttribDict object.

Parameters

  • priorized_keys (list[str], optional) – Keywords of current AttribDict which will be shown before all other keywords. Those keywords must exists otherwise an exception will be raised. Defaults to empty list.

  • min_label_length (int, optional) – Minimum label length for keywords. Defaults to 16.

Returns

String representation of current AttribDict object.

Origin._repr_pretty_(p, cycle)

Special Methods

Origin.__bool__()
Origin.__contains__(key)
Origin.__delattr__(name)
Origin.__delitem__(name)
Origin.__dir__()

Default dir() implementation.

Origin.__eq__(other)

Two instances are considered equal if all attributes and all lists are identical.

Origin.__format__(format_spec, /)

Default object formatter.

Origin.__ge__(value, /)

Return self>=value.

Origin.__getattr__(name, default=None)

Py3k hasattr() expects an AttributeError no KeyError to be raised if the attribute is not found.

Origin.__getattribute__(name, /)

Return getattr(self, name).

Origin.__getitem__(name, default=None)
Origin.__gt__(value, /)

Return self>value.

Origin.__init__(force_resource_id=True, *args, **kwargs)
Origin.__init_subclass__()

This method is called when a class is subclassed.

The default implementation does nothing. It may be overridden to extend subclasses.

Origin.__iter__()
Origin.__le__(value, /)

Return self<=value.

Origin.__len__()
Origin.__lt__(value, /)

Return self<value.

Origin.__ne__(other)
Origin.__new__(**kwargs)
Origin.__nonzero__()
Origin.__reduce__()

Helper for pickle.

Origin.__reduce_ex__(protocol, /)

Helper for pickle.

Origin.__repr__()
Origin.__setattr__(name, value)

Custom property implementation that works if the class is inheriting from AttribDict.

Origin.__setitem__(key, value)
Origin.__sizeof__()

Size of object in memory, in bytes.

Origin.__str__(force_one_line=False)

Fairly extensive in an attempt to cover several use cases. It is always possible to change it in the child class.

classmethod Origin.__subclasshook__(C)