Gets a list of recent events.
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Return type: | Catalog, list or str |
Returns: | Method will return either an ObsPy Catalog object, a list of event dictionaries or a QuakeML string depending on the format keyword. |
Example
>>> from obspy.neries import Client
>>> client = Client()
>>> events = client.getLatestEvents(num=5, format='list')
>>> len(events)
5
>>> events[0]
[{'author': u'CSEM', 'event_id': u'20041226_0000148',
'origin_id': 127773, 'longitude': 95.724,
'datetime': u'2004-12-26T00:58:50Z', 'depth': -10.0,
'magnitude': 9.3, 'magnitude_type': u'mw', 'latitude': 3.498,
'flynn_region': u'OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA'}]