Reads a NEIC PDE mchedr (machine-readable Earthquake Data Report) file and returns a ObsPy Catalog object.
Warning
This function should NOT be called directly, it registers via the ObsPy readEvents() function, call this instead.
Parameters: | filename (str) mchedr file to be read. |
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Return type: | Catalog |
Returns: | An ObsPy Catalog object. |
Example
>>> from obspy.core.event import readEvents
>>> cat = readEvents('/path/to/mchedr.dat')
>>> print cat
1 Event(s) in Catalog:
2012-01-01T05:27:55.980000Z | +31.456, +138.072 | 6.2 Mb