obspy.imaging.mopad_wrapper.beachball

beachball(fm, linewidth=2, facecolor='b', bgcolor='w', edgecolor='k', alpha=1.0, xy=(0, 0), width=200, size=100, nofill=False, zorder=100, mopad_basis='USE', outfile=None, format=None, fig=None)[source]

Draws a beach ball diagram of an earthquake focal mechanism. Based on MoPaD.

S1, D1, and R1, the strike, dip and rake of one of the focal planes, can be vectors of multiple focal mechanisms.

Parameters:

  • fm – Focal mechanism that is either number of mechanisms (NM) by 3 (strike, dip, and rake) or NM x 6 (M11, M22, M33, M12, M13, M23 - the six independent components of the moment tensor, where the coordinate system is 1,2,3 = Up,South,East which equals r,theta,phi). The strike is of the first plane, clockwise relative to north. The dip is of the first plane, defined clockwise and perpendicular to strike, relative to horizontal such that 0 is horizontal and 90 is vertical. The rake is of the first focal plane solution. 90 moves the hanging wall up-dip (thrust), 0 moves it in the strike direction (left-lateral), -90 moves it down-dip (normal), and 180 moves it opposite to strike (right-lateral).

  • facecolor – Color to use for quadrants of tension; can be a string, e.g. 'r', 'b' or three component color vector, [R G B]. Defaults to 'b' (blue).

  • bgcolor – The background color. Defaults to 'w' (white).

  • edgecolor – Color of the edges. Defaults to 'k' (black).

  • alpha – The alpha level of the beach ball. Defaults to 1.0 (opaque).

  • xy – Origin position of the beach ball as tuple. Defaults to (0, 0).

  • width (int) – Symbol size of beach ball. Defaults to 200.

  • size – Controls the number of interpolation points for the curves. Minimum is automatically set to 100.

  • nofill – Do not fill the beach ball, but only plot the planes.

  • zorder – Set zorder. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

  • mopad_basis – The basis system. Defaults to 'USE'. See the Supported Basis Systems section below for a full list of supported systems.

  • outfile – Output file string. Also used to automatically determine the output format. Supported file formats depend on your matplotlib backend. Most backends support png, pdf, ps, eps and svg. Defaults to None.

  • format – Format of the graph picture. If no format is given the outfile parameter will be used to try to automatically determine the output format. If no format is found it defaults to png output. If no outfile is specified but a format is, than a binary imagestring will be returned. Defaults to None.

  • fig – Give an existing figure instance to plot into. New Figure if set to None.

Supported Basis Systems

Short

Basis vectors

Usage

'NED'

North, East, Down

Jost and Herrmann 1989

'USE'

Up, South, East

Global CMT Catalog, Larson et al. 2010

'XYZ'

East, North, Up

General formulation, Jost and Herrmann 1989

'RT'

Radial, Transverse, Tangential

psmeca (GMT), Wessel and Smith 1999

'NWU'

North, West, Up

Stein and Wysession 2003

Examples

  1. Using basis system 'NED'.

    >>> from obspy.imaging.mopad_wrapper import beachball
>>> mt = [1, 2, 3, -4, -5, -10]
>>> beachball(mt, mopad_basis='NED')

    (Source code)