Washington State Earthquakes In 1980
- SUMMARY:
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The quakes.wash data frame is a marked spatial point pattern data set
listing the location, time and magnitude of earthquakes in and around
Washington State in 1980.
The Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State had several eruptions in
1980 including the massive eruption on May 18.
- DATA DESCRIPTION:
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The data frame contains the following columns:
- longitude:
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negative longitude of quake location.
- latitude:
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latitude of quake location.
- magnitude:
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the size of the quake.
- date:
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the date of the quake, an object of class dates.
- hour:
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the hour of the quake.
- minute:
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the minute of the quake.
- second:
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the second of the quake.
- SOURCE:
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The data are from Peter Guttorp, Statistics Department, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington.