Merge pull request #285 from ucgmsim/plot_cascadia

Plot cascadia

Author: jpa198

qcore/gmt.py

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def get_region(lon, lat):
     Returns closest region.
     """
     rcode = np.loadtxt(
-        resource_filename("qcore", "data/regions.ll"), usecols=0, dtype="U2"
+        resource_filename("qcore", "data/regions.ll"), usecols=0, dtype="U"
     )
     rloc = np.loadtxt(resource_filename("qcore", "data/regions.ll"), usecols=(1, 2))
     return rcode[geo.closest_location(rloc, lon, lat)[0]]
@@ -216,6 +216,13 @@ def regional_resource(region, resource="topo", mod=None):
 # region to use when plotting the whole of NZ
 nz_region = (166, 179, -47.5, -34)
 kr_region = (125.76, 129.74, 33.05, 39)
+cascadia_region = (-130, -120, 38, 52)
+region_dict = {
+    "NZ": nz_region,
+    "KR": kr_region,
+    "CASCADIA": cascadia_region,
+}
+
 ###
 ### ACCESSORY FUNCTIONS
 ###

qcore/srf.py

@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ def get_hypo(srf, lonlat=True, depth=False, join_minor=False):
     """
     Return hypocentre.
     srf: srf source file path
-    lonlat: in tearms of longitude and latitude (True), raw km offsets (False)
+    lonlat: in terms of longitude and latitude (True), raw km offsets (False)
     depth: return longitude, latitude and depth. False to only return 2 values
     """
     # complexity increased by: