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().