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The data set give the locations of 1000 seismic events of MB > 4.0. The events occurred in a cube near Fiji since 1964.

Variables:

A data frame with 1000 observations on 6 variables.

[,1]

lat

numeric

Latitude of event

[,2]

long

numeric

Longitude

[,3]

depth

numeric

Depth (km)

[,4]

mag

numeric

Richter Magnitude

[,5]

stations

numeric

Number of stations reporting

 

Details

There are two clear planes of seismic activity. One is a major plate junction; the other is the Tonga trench off New Zealand. These data constitute a subsample from a larger dataset of containing 5000 observations.

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Source

This is one of the Harvard PRIM-H project data sets. They in turn obtained it from Dr. John Woodhouse, Dept. of Geophysics, Harvard University.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Locations_of_Earthquakes_off_Fiji_430_43.csv")

R Coding Interface:


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