Earthquakes Demo

Datasets

The earthquake datasets are gathered from the Northern California Earthquake Data Center through the ANSS Composite Catalog Search.

Acknowledgement

"Waveform data, metadata, or data products for this study were accessed through the Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC), doi:10.7932/NCEDC."

Earthquakes

Filename: earthquakes-full.txt
Search parameters: catalog=ANSS, start_time=1989/01/01,00:00:00, end_time=2017/11/01,00:00:00, minimum_magnitude=0, maximum_magnitude=10, event_type=E
Size:

Blasts (Quarry or Nuclear)

Filename: blasts-full.txt
Search parameters: catalog=ANSS, start_time=1989/01/01,00:00:00, end_time=2017/11/01,00:00:00, minimum_magnitude=0, maximum_magnitude=10, event_type=B
Size: 17976 lines (1364546 bytes)

Setting up

Ingesting Data

Download and extract the dataset archive with tar zxf ncedc-earthquakes-dataset.tar.gz from the terminal. Run the below commands to ingest the data sets to your Elasticsearch cluster. Please note, you may need to configure ncedc-earthquakes-logstash.conf file in case your are not running Elasticsearch node on your local host.

tail -n +2 earthquakes.txt| EVENT="earthquake" logstash/bin/logstash -f ncedc-earthquakes-logstash.conf
tail -n +2 blasts.txt| EVENT="blast" logstash/bin/logstash -f ncedc-earthquakes-logstash.conf

Importing Kibana Visuals and Dashboards

1. Open Kibana and go to Management > Index Patterns. Type in ncedc-earthquakes as the index name and create the index pattern.
2. Go to Saved Objects tab and click on Import, and select ncedc-earthquakes-dashboard.json by the file chooser.
3. Select ncedc-earthquakes as the new index pattern when the Index Pattern Conflicts dialog prompted.
4. Go to Dashboard and click on Earthqueke from the list of the dashboards.