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.

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
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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.
setdefault
update
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Private Methods

_pretty_str Return better readable string representation of AttribDict object.

Special Methods

__contains__
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__eq__ Two instances are considered equal if all attributes and all lists
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__ne__
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__repr__
__setattr__ Custom property implementation that works if the class is
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__str__ Fairly extensive in an attempt to cover several use cases.
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