obspy.core.event.event.Event

class Event(force_resource_id=True, *args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: obspy.core.event.base.__Event

The class Event describes a seismic event which does not necessarily need to be a tectonic earthquake. An event is usually associated with one or more origins, which contain information about focal time and geographical location of the event. Multiple origins can cover automatic and manual locations, a set of location from different agencies, locations generated with different location programs and earth models, etc. Furthermore, an event is usually associated with one or more magnitudes, and with one or more focal mechanism determinations.

Parameters:
  • resource_id (ResourceIdentifier) – Resource identifier of Event.
  • force_resource_id (bool, optional) – If set to False, the automatic initialization of resource_id attribute in case it is not specified will be skipped.
  • event_type (str, optional) – Describes the type of an event. See EventType for allowed values.
  • event_type_certainty (str, optional) – Denotes how certain the information on event type is. See EventTypeCertainty for allowed values.
  • creation_info (CreationInfo, optional) – Creation information used to describe author, version, and creation time.
  • event_descriptions (list of EventDescription) – Additional event description, like earthquake name, Flinn-Engdahl region, etc.
  • comments (list of Comment, optional) – Additional comments.
  • picks (list of Pick) – Picks associated with the event.
  • amplitudes (list of Amplitude) – Amplitudes associated with the event.
  • focal_mechanisms (list of FocalMechanism) – Focal mechanisms associated with the event
  • origins (list of Origin) – Origins associated with the event.
  • magnitudes (list of Magnitude) – Magnitudes associated with the event.
  • station_magnitudes (list of StationMagnitude) – Station magnitudes associated with the event.

Note

For handling additional information not covered by the QuakeML standard and how to output it to QuakeML see the ObsPy Tutorial.

Attributes

__abstractmethods__
__dict__
__doc__
__hash__
__module__
__reversed__
__slots__
__weakref__ list of weak references to the object (if defined)
defaults
do_not_warn_on
item
key
readonly
warn_on_non_default_key

Public Methods

clear
copy
get
items
keys
plot Plot event location and/or the preferred focal mechanism and radiation pattern.
pop If key is not found, d is returned if given, otherwise KeyError is raised.
popitem as a 2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.
preferred_focal_mechanism Returns the preferred focal mechanism
preferred_magnitude Returns the preferred magnitude
preferred_origin Returns the preferred origin
setdefault
short_str Returns a short string representation of the current Event.
update If E present and has a .keys() method, does: for k in E: D[k] = E[k] If E present and lacks .keys() method, does: for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v In either case, this is followed by: for k, v in F.items(): D[k] = v
values
write Saves event information into a file.

Private Methods

Warning

Private methods are mainly for internal/developer use and their API might change without notice.

_pretty_str Return better readable string representation of AttribDict object.
_repr_pretty_

Special Methods

__bool__
__contains__
__deepcopy__ reset resource_id’s object_id after deep copy to allow the object specific behavior of get_referred_object
__delattr__
__delitem__
__dir__ Default dir() implementation.
__eq__ Two instances are considered equal if all attributes and all lists are identical.
__format__ Default object formatter.
__getattr__ Py3k hasattr() expects an AttributeError no KeyError to be raised if the attribute is not found.
__getitem__
__getstate__
__init__
__init_subclass__ This method is called when a class is subclassed.
__iter__
__len__
__ne__
__new__ Create and return a new object.
__nonzero__
__reduce__ Helper for pickle.
__reduce_ex__ Helper for pickle.
__repr__ Return repr(self).
__setattr__ Custom property implementation that works if the class is inheriting from AttribDict.
__setitem__
__setstate__
__sizeof__ Size of object in memory, in bytes.
__str__ Print a short summary at the top.
__subclasshook__ Abstract classes can override this to customize issubclass().