[OSGeo Africa] Earthquake data

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


> On 25 May 2018, at 20:14, Sibonelo Dlamini <sibonelo021 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> True Tim.
> 
> USGS is got but I don't know about the scale and accuracy to be specific in the area of interest in South Africa. I suggest checking out with the Council of Geoscience CGS for derailed . They are a data custodian of that information.
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Will you share your findings back to the list if you find a realtime source of SA shake data? We have also written http://realtime.inasafe.org by the way, and it would be awesome to deploy an instance here in South Africa.

Regards

Tim

> Best regards
> Sibonelo Dlamini (RSA)
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> On 25 May 2018 20:08, "Tim Sutton" <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> Hi
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> You can also get USGS data for the rest of the world here:
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> https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/ <https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/>
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> And if you are interested, Kartoza has written a software that can take USGS format shakemaps and turn it into GeoTIFF and do impact on population analysis. You can see more about our work here:
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> http://inasafe.org <http://inasafe.org/>
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> Regards
> 
> Tim
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>> On 25 May 2018, at 14:59, Hugo Paul <hugo at mhpgeo.co.za <mailto:hugo at mhpgeo.co.za>> wrote:
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>> Good day
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>> I was wondering if South Africa has an earth quake monitoring facility/center similar to the USGS?
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>> Or does anyone perhaps know where I can get seismic data for South Africa (excel, .shp)?
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>> Thank you
>> Regards
>> Hugo
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