Tiantian's quake exercise

week04/quakes.py

@@ -1,19 +1,31 @@
 """A script to find the biggest earthquake in an online dataset."""
+import requests
+import json
 
-# At the top of the file, import any libraries you will use.
-# import ...
 
-# If you want, you can define some functions to help organise your code.
-# def helper_function(argument_1, argument_2):
-#   ...
 
-# When you run the file, it should print out the location and magnitude
-# of the biggest earthquake.
-# You can run the file with `python quakes.py` from this directory.
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    # ...do things here to find the results...
+    quakes = requests.get("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query.geojson",
+                      params={
+                          'starttime': "2000-01-01",
+                          "maxlatitude": "58.723",
+                          "minlatitude": "50.008",
+                          "maxlongitude": "1.67",
+                          "minlongitude": "-9.756",
+                          "minmagnitude": "1",
+                          "endtime": "2018-10-11",
+                          "orderby": "time-asc"}
+                      )
 
-    # The lines below assume that the results are stored in variables
-    # named max_magnitude and coords, but you can change that.
+
+    my_request = json.loads(quakes.text)
+    largest_quake = quake_feature[0]
+
+    for quake in quake_feature:
+        if quake['properties']['mag'] > largest_quake['properties']['mag']:
+            largest_quake = quake
+    max_magnitude = largest_quake['properties']['mag']
+    coords= largest_quake['geometry']['coordinates'][0],largest_quake['geometry']['coordinates'][1]
+
     print(f"The maximum magnitude is {max_magnitude} "
           f"and it occured at coordinates {coords}.")