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Sample Data: Earthquake Waiting Times

Earthquake waiting times

Originator: The Open University

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Sample Data: Earthquake Waiting Times"]
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View the data:

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Visualization

Plot the distribution of times:

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Histogram[ ResourceData["Sample Data: Earthquake Waiting Times"][All, "WaitingTime"], 10, AxesLabel -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "Sample Data: Earthquake Waiting Times" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016) https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.50105.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created: 28 January 2016

Source Metadata

  • Title: Earthquake Waiting Times Sample Data
  • Creator: The Open University
  • Contributor: S237: The Earth: Structure, Composition and Evolution
  • Publisher: Open University, 1981 and Champan & Hall/CRC, 1994
  • Date: 1981
  • Description: The time in days between serious (magnitude at least 7.5 or over 1000 fatalities) earthquakes worldwide, from 12/16/1902 to 3/4/1977
  • Coverage: Worldwide, 1902-1977
  • Language: English
  • Source: Open University and A Handbook of Small Data Sets by David J. Hand, Fergus Daly, A.D. Lunn, K.J. McConway, and E. Ostrowski

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  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research