About the data

File	Description	Source
earthquakes.csv	Earthquake data from September 18, 2018 through October 13, 2018.	The US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake API.
example_data.csv	Five rows from earthquakes.csv containing a subset of the columns.	The US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake API.
parsed.csv	Data from earthquakes.csv with an additional column for the location (parsed from the data to handle multiple names for the same entity).	The US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake API.
quakes.db	A SQLite database of a single table, tsunamis, which contains all data on the earthquakes in earthquakes.csv that were accompanied by a tsunami.	The US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake API.
tsunamis.csv	Data for all earthquakes in earthquakes.csv that were accompanied by a tsunami.	The US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake API.

Source

Information on the US Geological Survey (USGS) earthquake API can be found here. In this chapter, we walk through collecting this data.