Low-level interface for flinnengdahl Web service of IRIS (http://service.iris.edu/irisws/flinnengdahl/) - release 1.1 (2011-06-08).
This method converts a latitude, longitude pair into either a Flinn-Engdahl seismic region code or region name.
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Return type: | int, str, or tuple |
Returns: | Returns Flinn-Engdahl region code or name or both, depending on the request type parameter rtype. |
Examples
>>> from obspy.iris import Client
>>> client = Client()
>>> client.flinnengdahl(lat=-20.5, lon=-100.6, rtype="code")
683
>>> client.flinnengdahl(lat=42, lon=-122.24, rtype="region")
'OREGON'
>>> client.flinnengdahl(lat=-20.5, lon=-100.6)
(683, 'SOUTHEAST CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN')