import requests

import datetime

endpoint = 'https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_week.geojson'

response = requests.get(endpoint)

status_code = response.status_code

if status_code == 200:

quakes_list = response.json()['features']

for quake_obj in quakes_list:

place_str = quake_obj['properties']['place']

if 'OR' in place_str or 'Oregon' in place_str or 'PA' in place_str or 'Pennsylvania' in place_str:

print('Place: ' + str(quake_obj['properties']['place']))

# Convert timestamp from "milliseconds since the epoch" to UTC

sec = quake_obj['properties']['time'] / 1000.0

date_time_str = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(sec).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')

print('Date/time (UTC): ' + date_time_str)

print('(subtract 5 hrs for PA, 8 hrs for OR)')

print('Magnitude: ' + str(quake_obj['properties']['mag']))

print('Type: ' + str(quake_obj['properties']['type']))

if quake_obj['properties']['alert'] != None:

print('Alert: ' + str(quake_obj['properties']['alert']))

if quake_obj['properties']['tsunami'] > 0:

print('Possible tsunami warning; see NOAA Tsunami website')

if quake_obj['properties']['felt'] != None:

print(str(quake_obj['properties']['felt']) + ' report(s) that it was felt')

print('--------------------------------------------------')

else:

print(f'Request was unsuccessful. Status code: {status_code}')

The Earthquakes.py program displays information about earthquakes registered in Oregon and Pennsylvania in the past seven days. (I chose these two states because that’s where our family lives.) You could easily change the code to display earthquakes in other states. The information comes from an API provided by the [U.S. Geological Survey] (https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/apis).

Output is printed to the console, as shown in this example:


Requirements:

- requests library

- datetime module