Description: Earthquakes extracted from the USGS Earthquake Catalog and converted to an ESRI feature class using Python.Original values are left intact with the exception of conversion of the elevation component of the coordinate to a negative value in KM and the conversion of null elevation values to 0, and the conversion of null values for "mag", "mmi", "nst", "gap", and "dmin" to -1.0 for insertion to a database table.
Service Item Id: 086d23db15424f1585a1f9a51020f6af
Copyright Text: United States Geological Survey and contributing organizations to the Earthquake Catalog