RitzVanille / IMO_earthquakes_fetcher

Retreive the complete instrumental seismic catalogue from the Iceland Meteorological Office.

Easy retrival of the Iceland Meteorological Office eqrthquake catalogue

The IMO curates the earthquake bulletin for Iceland with the SIL catalogue (South Iceland Lowland, extended to the whole country since).

Data coverage

1994-present, archived weekly

Usage

The script can be ran directly by using:

python3 get_IMO_earthquakes.py

If you want to change the name of the output file, you can do so by altering the variable called CATALOGUE_FILE_NAME inside the script.

Dependencies

This script needs the python requests package to run. If the package is not already installed on your system, you can install it in a virtual environment

1. Create virtual environment (for example by storing the venv as a .venv)

python3 -m venv <PathToVenv>

2. activate it

source <PathToVenv>/bin/activate

3. Install needed packages:

pip3 install requests 

The virtual environment is now set up and you can activate it before running the script with the command:

source <PathToVenv>/bin/activate

Licence

This project is free software: You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the European Union Public Licence (EUPL v.1.2) or – as soon they will be approved by the European Commission - subsequent versions of the EUPL (the "Licence"); You may not use this work except in compliance with the Licence.

The project is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Licence for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the Licence.