Earthquakes in Greece (USGS GeoJSON)

  A small geospatial data project that downloads earthquake events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (GeoJSON) and produces:

• monthly trend chart
• magnitude distribution histogram
• interactive HTML map  

Data

Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog (FDSN Event Web Service), GeoJSON output.   Bounding box (approx. Greece region):

• lat: 34.0 to 42.5
• lon: 19.0 to 29.8   Default filters:
• last 12 months
• minimum magnitude: 2.5  

Tech stack

• Python
• pandas, geopandas
• matplotlib
• folium  

Outputs

After running the scripts, you will get:

• outputs/earthquakes_per_month.png
• outputs/magnitude_hist.png
• outputs/earthquakes_map.html

Monthly earthqueakes trend

Magnitude distribution

Interactive map (Preview)

 

How to run

python -m venv .venv
# Git Bash (Windows):
source .venv/Scripts/activate
 
pip install -r requirements.txt
 
python src/01_fetch_usgs.py
python src/02_analyze_and_map.py


## Notes
- The place field is a free-text description from USGS and may be approximate.
- This is a portfolio / learning project.