NZ55 Earthquake Catalogue

Description

The NZ55 earthquake catalogue contains all events in the New Zealand Catalogue with magnitude >= 5.5 from 1 Jan 1960 until 31 Dec 1998.

Usage

data(NZ55)

Format

This data frame has class "catalogue" and contains the following columns:

latitude

number of degrees north.

longitude

number of degrees east.

magnitude

event magnitude.

depth

event depth (km).

missing.time

always "".

time

vector of event dates and times with class "datetimes".

Source

These data originate from the New Zealand Catalogue which is administered by the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, NZ.

Examples

data(NZ55)
summary(NZ55)