etasFLP (version 1.0.2)

eqcat: Check earthquake catalog

Description

Preliminary check of the names of an earthquake catalog. summary and plot methods for earthquake catalogs.

Usage

eqcat(x)
## S3 method for class 'eqcat':
plot(x,...)
## S3 method for class 'eqcat':
summary(object,extended=TRUE,...)

Arguments

x

an earthquake catalog.

object

an eqcat object.

extended

if TRUE some extra summary functions are computed.

...

other arguments.

Value

• If the catalog passes the check, then the catalog is returned with the new class name eqcat; otherwise an error message is printed.
• cat
  a catalog is returned. If the check is ok, this is an eqcat class object.
• ok
  A flag: TRUE if the check is ok; FALSE elsewhere.

Details

Minimal check of an earthquake catalog; checks only if it is suitable for the use as argument of the functions of etasFLP (mainly etasclass); checks only the presence of variables with the names time, lat, long, z, magn1. summary and plot methods are defined for earthquake catalogs.

See Also

etasclass

Examples

data(italycatalog)
f=eqcat(italycatalog)
print(f$ok)