Name: Western US and Mexico Historical Earthquakes M5.5 Plus
Display Field: place
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint
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.
Copyright Text: United States Geological Survey, California Department of Conservation, and contributing organizations