etasFLP (version 1.3.0)

eqcat: Check earthquake catalog

Description

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

Usage

eqcat(x)
"plot"(x,...)
"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)