To analyze earthquake data, we first need to obtain a dataset. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) provides a dataset of earthquake data that we can use for this purpose. We can download this dataset from their website using Python and the requests library.
Here is an example of how to download earthquake data from the USGS website using Python:
import requests# Set the URL for the earthquake dataurl = 'https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query.csv?starttime=2020-01-01%2000:00:00&endtime=2022-03-17%2023:59:59&minmagnitude=6&orderby=time'# Download the earthquake dataresponse = requests.get(url)# Save the earthquake data to a filewith open('earthquake_data.csv', 'w') as f: f.write(response.text) |
In this example, we set the URL for the earthquake data, download the data using requests.get(), and save it to a file named earthquake_data.csv.
Once we have the earthquake data, we can use pandas or Dask to load the data into a DataFrame or Dask DataFrame, respectively, and perform various analyses. Here is an example of how to load the earthquake data into a pandas DataFrame and analyze it:
import pandas as pd# Load the earthquake data into a pandas DataFramedf = pd.read_csv('earthquake_data.csv')# Count the number of earthquakes by countrycounts = df['country'].value_counts()# Print the top 10 countries with the most earthquakesprint(counts.head(10)) |
In this example, we load the earthquake data into a pandas DataFrame using pd.read_csv(), count the number of earthquakes by country using value_counts(), and print the top 10 countries with the most earthquakes using head().
We can perform similar analyses using Dask. Here is an example of how to load the earthquake data into a Dask DataFrame and analyze it:
import dask.dataframe as dd# Load the earthquake data into a Dask DataFramedf = dd.read_csv('earthquake_data.csv')# Count the number of earthquakes by countrycounts = df['country'].value_counts()# Print the top 10 countries with the most earthquakesprint(counts.head(10).compute()) |
In this example, we load the earthquake data into a Dask DataFrame using dd.read_csv(), count the number of earthquakes by country using value_counts(), and print the top 10 countries with the most earthquakes using head() and compute() to trigger computation. Note that compute() is required to execute the computation and obtain the result.