obspy.core.event.FocalMechanism

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

Bases: obspy.core.event.__FocalMechanism

This class describes the focal mechanism of an event. It includes different descriptions like nodal planes, principal axes, and a moment tensor. The moment tensor description is provided by objects of the class MomentTensor which can be specified as child elements of FocalMechanism.

Parameters:
  • resource_id (ResourceIdentifier) Resource identifier of FocalMechanism.
  • 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.
  • triggering_origin_id (ResourceIdentifier, optional) Refers to the resource_id of the triggering origin.
  • nodal_planes (NodalPlanes, optional) Nodal planes of the focal mechanism.
  • principal_axes (PrincipalAxes, optional) Principal axes of the focal mechanism.
  • azimuthal_gap (float, optional) Largest azimuthal gap in distribution of stations used for determination of focal mechanism. Unit: deg
  • station_polarity_count (int, optional)
  • misfit (float, optional) Fraction of misfit polarities in a first-motion focal mechanism determination. Decimal fraction between 0 and 1.
  • station_distribution_ratio (float, optional) Station distribution ratio (STDR) parameter. Indicates how the stations are distributed about the focal sphere (Reasenberg and Oppenheimer 1985). Decimal fraction between 0 and 1.
  • method_id (ResourceIdentifier, optional) Resource identifier of the method used for determination of the focal mechanism.
  • waveform_id (list of WaveformStreamID, optional) Refers to a set of waveform streams from which the focal mechanism was derived.
  • evaluation_mode (str, optional)

    Evaluation mode of FocalMechanism. Allowed values are the following:

    • "manual"
    • "automatic"
  • evaluation_status (str, optional)

    Evaluation status of FocalMechanism. Allowed values are the following:

    • "preliminary"
    • "confirmed"
    • "reviewed"
    • "final"
    • "rejected"
    • "reported"
  • moment_tensor (MomentTensor, optional) Moment tensor description for this focal mechanism.
  • comments (list of Comment, optional) Additional comments.
  • creation_info (CreationInfo, optional) Creation information used to describe author, version, and creation time.

Note

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

Attributes

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