Group-3-Recent-Quakes

Members

Theresa Andrasfay
Timothy Hoang
Lorraine Hsiao
Qi Zhang

Goals of this project

Clean the USGS earthquake data and visualize the earthquakes on a map.
The various feeds of earthquakes can be found here.

Virtual Box Initial Setup

Open your virtual machine and log in. Then execute the following commands:

git clone https:github.com/tandrasfay/Group-3-Recent-Quakes
cd Group-3-Recent-Quakes

sudo apt-get install libgeos-3.3.3 python-mpltoolkits.basemap python-mpltoolkits.basemap-data python-mpltoolkits.basemap-doc

Then run the notebook from your machine with this command:

ipython notebook --no-browser --ip=0.0.0.0 --script --pylab=inline

You should get a response that the ipython notebook is running at xxxx which you will type into your browser.

Choose Recent Earthquakes in the ipython notebook dashboard and then click cell --> run all

Issues

We were able to write code to cache the data locally, so anyone who uses our code caches a copy of the live data for themselves to use at a later date. However, we were unable to upload the data to github because we kept getting fatal errors.