obspy.core.event.EventDescription

class EventDescription(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: obspy.core.event.__EventDescription

Free-form string with additional event description. This can be a well-known name, like 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. A number of categories can be given in type.

Parameters:
  • text (str, optional) Free-form text with earthquake description.
  • type (str, optional)

    Category of earthquake description. Values can be taken from the following:

    • "felt report"
    • "Flinn-Engdahl region"
    • "local time"
    • "tectonic summary"
    • "nearest cities"
    • "earthquake name"
    • "region name"

Note

For handling additional information not covered by the QuakeML standard and how to output it to QuakeML see the ObsPy Tutorial.

Attributes

__abstractmethods__ frozenset() -> empty frozenset object
__dict__
__doc__ unicode(string [, encoding[, errors]]) -> object
__hash__
__module__ str(object) -> string
__weakref__ list of weak references to the object (if defined)
defaults dict() -> new empty dictionary
item tuple() -> empty tuple
key unicode(string [, encoding[, errors]]) -> object
readonly list() -> new empty list

Public Methods

clear
copy
get
items
iteritems
iterkeys
itervalues
keys
pop
popitem
setdefault
update
values

Private Methods

_pretty_str Return better readable string representation of AttribDict object.
_repr_pretty_

Special Methods

__bool__
__contains__
__deepcopy__
__delattr__
__delitem__
__eq__ Two instances are considered equal if all attributes and all lists
__getattr__ Py3k hasattr() expects an AttributeError no KeyError to be
__getitem__
__getstate__
__init__
__iter__
__len__
__ne__
__nonzero__
__repr__
__setattr__ Custom property implementation that works if the class is
__setitem__
__setstate__
__str__ Fairly extensive in an attempt to cover several use cases.
__subclasshook__