obspy.core.quakeml.Unpickler._focal_mechanism

Unpickler._focal_mechanism(element)[source]

Converts an etree.Element into a FocalMechanism object.

Return type:FocalMechanism

Example

>>> from obspy.core.util import XMLParser
>>> XML = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
... <focalMechanism>
...   <methodID>smi:ISC/methodID=Best_double_couple</methodID>
... </focalMechanism>'''
>>> parser = XMLParser(XML)
>>> unpickler = Unpickler(parser)
>>> fm = unpickler._focal_mechanism(parser.xml_root)
>>> print(fm.method_id)
smi:ISC/methodID=Best_double_couple

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