obspy.core.event.Event

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

Bases: obspy.core.event.__Event

The class Event describes a seismic event which does not necessarily need to be a tectonic earthquake. An event is usually associated with one or more origins, which contain information about focal time and geographical location of the event. Multiple origins can cover automatic and manual locations, a set of location from different agencies, locations generated with different location programs and earth models, etc. Furthermore, an event is usually associated with one or more magnitudes, and with one or more focal mechanism determinations.

Parameters:
  • resource_id (ResourceIdentifier) Resource identifier of Event.
  • 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.
  • event_type (str, optional)

    Describes the type of an event. Allowed values are the following:

    • "not existing"
    • "not reported"
    • "earthquake"
    • "anthropogenic event"
    • "collapse"
    • "cavity collapse"
    • "mine collapse"
    • "building collapse"
    • "explosion"
    • "accidental explosion"
    • "chemical explosion"
    • "controlled explosion"
    • "experimental explosion"
    • "industrial explosion"
    • "mining explosion"
    • "quarry blast"
    • "road cut"
    • "blasting levee"
    • "nuclear explosion"
    • "induced or triggered event"
    • "rock burst"
    • "reservoir loading"
    • "fluid injection"
    • "fluid extraction"
    • "crash"
    • "plane crash"
    • "train crash"
    • "boat crash"
    • "other event"
    • "atmospheric event"
    • "sonic boom"
    • "sonic blast"
    • "acoustic noise"
    • "thunder"
    • "avalanche"
    • "snow avalanche"
    • "debris avalanche"
    • "hydroacoustic event"
    • "ice quake"
    • "slide"
    • "landslide"
    • "rockslide"
    • "meteorite"
    • "volcanic eruption"
  • event_type_certainty (str, optional)

    Denotes how certain the information on event type is. Allowed values are the following:

    • "suspected"
    • "known"
  • creation_info (CreationInfo, optional) Creation information used to describe author, version, and creation time.
  • event_descriptions (list of EventDescription) Additional event description, like earthquake name, Flinn-Engdahl region, etc.
  • comments (list of Comment, optional) Additional comments.
  • picks (list of Pick) Picks associated with the event.
  • amplitudes (list of Amplitude) Amplitudes associated with the event.
  • focal_mechanisms (list of FocalMechanism) Focal mechanisms associated with the event
  • origins (list of Origin) Origins associated with the event.
  • magnitudes (list of Magnitude) Magnitudes associated with the event.
  • station_magnitudes (list of StationMagnitude) Station magnitudes associated with the event.

Attributes

__abstractmethods__ frozenset() -> empty frozenset object
__dict__
__doc__ str(object=’‘) -> string
__hash__
__module__ str(object=’‘) -> string
__weakref__ list of weak references to the object (if defined)
defaults dict() -> new empty dictionary
item tuple() -> empty tuple
key str(object=’‘) -> string
readonly list() -> new empty list

Public Methods

clear
copy
get
items
iteritems
iterkeys
itervalues
keys
pop If key is not found, d is returned if given, otherwise KeyError is raised.
popitem as a 2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.
preferred_focal_mechanism Returns the preferred origin
preferred_magnitude Returns the preferred origin
preferred_origin Returns the preferred origin
setdefault
short_str Returns a short string representation of the current Event.
update
values

Private Methods

_pretty_str Return better readable string representation of AttribDict object.

Special Methods

__contains__
__deepcopy__
__delattr__
__delitem__
__eq__ Implements rich comparison of Event objects for “==” operator.
__getattr__
__getitem__
__getstate__
__init__
__iter__
__len__
__ne__
__nonzero__
__repr__
__setattr__ Custom property implementation that works if the class is
__setitem__
__setstate__
__str__ Print a short summary at the top.
__subclasshook__

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