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TODO This class describes the location uncertainties of an origin. The uncertainty can be described either as a simple
circular horizontal uncertainty, an uncertainty ellipse according to IMS1.0, or a confidence ellipsoid. If multiple
uncertainty models are given, the preferred variant can be specified in the attribute '''preferredDescription'''.
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TODO Preferred uncertainty description. Allowed values are from [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionTypesDiscussion#class_OriginUncertaintyDescription|OriginUncertaintyDescription]].
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TODO Circular confidence region, given by single value of horizontal uncertainty.
Unit: m
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TODO Semi-major axis of confidence ellipse.
Unit: m
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TODO Semi-minor axis of confidence ellipse.
Unit: m
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TODO Azimuth of major axis of confidence ellipse. Measured clockwise from
South-North direction at epicenter.
Unit: deg
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TODO see [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionTypesDiscussion#class_ConfidenceEllipsoid|ConfidenceEllipsoid]]
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TODO Confidence level of the uncertainty, given in percent.
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TODO This class represents the focal time and geographical location of an earthquake hypocenter, as well as additional
meta-information. ''Origin'' can have objects of type [[#class_OriginUncertainty|OriginUncertainty]] and [[#class_Arrival|Arrival]] as child elements.
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TODO Resource identifier of ''Origin''.
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TODO Focal time.

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<<Anchor(attribute_Origin.longitude)>>
'''Origin.longitude''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/CommonDiscussion#class_RealQuantity|co:RealQuantity]])

Hypocenter longitude, with respect to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) reference system
(National Imagery and Mapping Agency 2000).
Unit: deg
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'''Origin.longitude''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/CommonDiscussion#class_RealQuantity|co:RealQuantity]])

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Hypocenter latitude, with respect to the WGS84 reference system.
Unit: deg
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TODO Depth of hypocenter with respect to the nominal sea level given by the WGS84 geoid (Earth Gravitational
Model, EGM96, Lemoine et al. 1998). Positive values indicate hypocenters below sea level. For shallow
hypocenters, the depth value can be negative. Note: Other standards use different conventions for depth
measurement. As an example, GSE 2.0, defines depth with respect to the local surface. If event data is
converted from other formats to QuakeML, depth values may have to be modified accordingly.
Unit: m
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TODO Describes the Origin type. Allowed values are from [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionTypesDiscussion#class_OriginType|OriginType]].
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TODO Type of depth determination. Allowed values are from [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionTypesDiscussion#class_OriginDepthType|OriginDepthType]].
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TODO Boolean flag. True if epicenter was kept fixed for computation of ''Origin''.
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TODO Boolean flag. True if focal time was kept fixed for computation of the ''Origin''.
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TODO Identifies the method used for locating the event.
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TODO Identifies the earth model used in '''methodID'''.
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TODO Identifies the reference system used for hypocenter determination. This is only necessary if
a modified version of the standard (with local extensions) is used that provides a non-standard coordinate
system.
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TODO Additional parameters describing the quality of an ''Origin'' determination.
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TODO Can be used to decribe the geographical region of the epicenter location. Useful if an event has multiple
origins from different agencies, and these have different region designations. Note that an event-wide
region can be defined in the '''description''' attribute of an ''Event'' object. The user has to take care that this
information corresponds to the region attribute of the preferred ''Origin''. String with maximum length of
255 chars.
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TODO Evaluation mode of ''Origin''. Allowed values are from [[QuakeML2.0/CommonDiscussion#class_EvaluationMode|EvaluationMode]].
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TODO Evaluation status of ''Origin''. Allowed values are from [[QuakeML2.0/CommonDiscussion#class_EvaluationStatus|EvaluationStatus]].
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TODO [[QuakeML2.0/ResourceMetadataDiscussion#class_CreationInfo|CreationInfo]] for the ''Origin'' object.
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TODO see [[#class_OriginUncertainty|OriginUncertainty]]
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TODO see [[#class_Arrival|Arrival]]
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TODO Additional comments.
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TODO Supplementary information on time of rupture start. Complex descriptions of focal times of
historic events are possible, see description of the CompositeTime type. Note that even if '''compositeTime'''
is used, the mandatory '''time''' attribute has to be set, too. It has to be set to the single point in time (with
uncertainties allowed) that is most characteristic for the event.
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TODO The class ''Event'' describes a seismic event which does not necessarily need to be a tectonic earthquake. An event
is usually associated with one or more origins, which contain information about focal time and geographical
location of the event. Multiple origins can cover automatic and manual locations, a set of location from different
agencies, locations generated with different location programs and earth models, etc. Furthermore, an event
is usually associated with one or more magnitudes, and with one or more focal mechanism determinations. In
standard (bulletin) QuakeML-BED, [[#class_Origin|Origin]], [[#class_Magnitude|Magnitude]], [[#class_StationMagnitude|StationMagnitude]], and [[#class_FocalMechanism|FocalMechanism]]are child elements of
''Event''. In BED-RT (real-time) all these elements are on the same hierarchy level as child elements of [[#class_EventParameters|EventParameters]].
The association of origins, magnitudes, and focal mechanisms to a particular event is expressed using references
inside ''Event''.
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TODO Resource identifier of ''Event''.
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TODO Refers to the '''publicID''' of the preferred [[#class_Origin|Origin]] object.
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TODO Refers to the '''publicID''' of the preferred [[#class_Magnitude|Magnitude]] object.
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TODO Refers to the '''publicID''' of the preferred [[#class_FocalMechanism|FocalMechanism]] object.
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TODO Describes the type of an event (Storchak et al. 2012). Allowed values are from [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionTypesDiscussion#class_EventType|EventType]].
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TODO Denotes how certain the information on event type is (Storchak et al. 2012). Allowed values
are from [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionTypesDiscussion#class_EventTypeCertainty|EventTypeCertainty]].
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TODO [[QuakeML2.0/ResorceMetadataDiscussion#class_CreationInfo|CreationInfo]] for the '''Event''' object.
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TODO see [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_Amplitude|Amplitude]]
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TODO see [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_Magnitude|Magnitude]]
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TODO see [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_StationMagnitude|StationMagnitude]]
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TODO see [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_Origin|Origin]]
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TODO see [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_Pick|Pick]]
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TODO [[QuakeML2.0/ResorceMetadataDiscussion#class_Comment|Comment]] for the '''Event''' object.
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TODO Additional event description, like earthquake name, Flinn-Engdahl region, etc.
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TODO In the bulletin-type (non real-time) model, this class serves as a container for [[#class_Event|Event]] objects. In the real-time
version, it can hold objects of type [[#class_Event|Event]], [[#class_Origin|Origin]], [[#class_Magnitude|Magnitude]], [[#class_StationMagnitude|StationMagnitude]], [[#class_FocalMechanism|FocalMechanism]], [[#class_Reading|Reading]],
[[#class_Amplitude|Amplitude]], and [[#class_Pick|Pick]].
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'''EventParameters.publicID''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/CommonDiscussion#class_ResourceReference|co:ResourceReference]])

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'''!EventParameters.publicID''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/CommonDiscussion#class_ResourceReference|co:ResourceReference]])

Resource identifier of ''!EventParameters'' object.
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'''EventParameters.description''' (type string)

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'''!EventParameters.description''' (type string)

Description string that can be assigned to the earthquake catalog, or collection of events.
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'''EventParameters.creationInfo''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/ResourceMetadataDiscussion#class_CreationInfo|rm:CreationInfo]])

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'''!EventParameters.creationInfo''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/ResourceMetadataDiscussion#class_CreationInfo|rm:CreationInfo]])

[[#class_CreationInfo|CreationInfo]] for the earthquake catalog.
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'''EventParameters.event''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_Event|bed:Event]])

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'''!EventParameters.event''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/BasicEventDescriptionDiscussion#class_Event|bed:Event]])

see [[#class_Event|Event]]
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'''EventParameters.comment''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/ResourceMetadataDiscussion#class_Comment|rm:Comment]])

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'''!EventParameters.comment''' (type [[QuakeML2.0/ResourceMetadataDiscussion#class_Comment|rm:Comment]])

Additional comments.

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MomentTensor [element]

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MomentTensor.greensFunctionID (type co:ResourceReference)

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MomentTensor.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

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MomentTensor.category (type bedt:MomentTensorCategory)

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MomentTensor.clvd (type :RealQuantity)

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MomentTensor.doubleCouple (type :RealQuantity)

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MomentTensor.inversionType (type bedt:MTInversionType)

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MomentTensor.iso (type :RealQuantity)

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MomentTensor.sourceTimeFunction (type bedt:SourceTimeFunction)

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MomentTensor.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

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MomentTensor.comment (type rm:Comment)

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MomentTensor.dataUsed (type bedt:DataUsed)

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FocalMechanism [element]

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FocalMechanism.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

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FocalMechanism.triggeringOriginID (type co:ResourceReference)

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FocalMechanism.nodalPlanes (type bedt:NodalPlanes)

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FocalMechanism.principalAxes (type bedt:PrincipalAxes)

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FocalMechanism.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

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FocalMechanism.azimuthalGap (type float)

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FocalMechanism.stationPolarityCount (type int)

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FocalMechanism.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

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FocalMechanism.momentTensor (type bed:MomentTensor)

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FocalMechanism.waveformID (type wf:WaveformStreamID)

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Amplitude [element]

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Amplitude.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Amplitude.period (type co:RealQuantity)

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Amplitude.pickID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Amplitude.filterID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Amplitude.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Amplitude.magnitudeHint (type string)

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Amplitude.scalingTime (type co:TimeQuantity)

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StationMagnitudeContribution [element]

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StationMagnitudeContribution.stationMagnitudeID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Magnitude [element]

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Magnitude.mag (type co:RealQuantity)

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Magnitude.type (type string)

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Magnitude.originID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Magnitude.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Magnitude.stationCount (type int)

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StationMagnitude [element]

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StationMagnitude.mag (type co:RealQuantity)

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StationMagnitude.amplitudeID (type co:ResourceReference)

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StationMagnitude.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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StationMagnitude.waveformID (type wf:WaveformStreamID)

TODO


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StationMagnitude.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

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OriginUncertainty [element]

This class describes the location uncertainties of an origin. The uncertainty can be described either as a simple circular horizontal uncertainty, an uncertainty ellipse according to IMS1.0, or a confidence ellipsoid. If multiple uncertainty models are given, the preferred variant can be specified in the attribute preferredDescription.


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OriginUncertainty.preferredDescription (type bedt:OriginUncertaintyDescription)

Preferred uncertainty description. Allowed values are from OriginUncertaintyDescription.


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OriginUncertainty.horizontalUncertainty (type float)

Circular confidence region, given by single value of horizontal uncertainty. Unit: m


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OriginUncertainty.maxHorizontalUncertainty (type float)

Semi-major axis of confidence ellipse. Unit: m


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OriginUncertainty.minHorizontalUncertainty (type float)

Semi-minor axis of confidence ellipse. Unit: m


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OriginUncertainty.azimuthMaxHorizontalUncertainty (type float)

Azimuth of major axis of confidence ellipse. Measured clockwise from South-North direction at epicenter. Unit: deg


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OriginUncertainty.confidenceEllipsoid (type bedt:ConfidenceEllipsoid)

see ConfidenceEllipsoid


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OriginUncertainty.confidenceLevel (type float)

Confidence level of the uncertainty, given in percent.


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Arrival [element]

TODO


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Arrival.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

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Arrival.pickID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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Arrival.phase (type bedt:Phase)

TODO


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Arrival.timeCorrection (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.azimuth (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.distance (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.takeoffAngle (type co:RealQuantity)

TODO


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Arrival.timeResidual (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.horizontalSlownessResidual (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.backazimuthResidual (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.timeWeight (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.horizontalSlownessWeight (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.backazimuthWeight (type float)

TODO


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Arrival.earthModelID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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Arrival.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

TODO


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Origin [element]

This class represents the focal time and geographical location of an earthquake hypocenter, as well as additional meta-information. Origin can have objects of type OriginUncertainty and Arrival as child elements.


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Origin.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

Resource identifier of Origin.


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Origin.time (type co:TimeQuantity)

Focal time.


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Origin.longitude (type co:RealQuantity)

Hypocenter longitude, with respect to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) reference system (National Imagery and Mapping Agency 2000). Unit: deg


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Origin.latitude (type co:RealQuantity)

Hypocenter latitude, with respect to the WGS84 reference system. Unit: deg


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Origin.depth (type co:RealQuantity)

Depth of hypocenter with respect to the nominal sea level given by the WGS84 geoid (Earth Gravitational Model, EGM96, Lemoine et al. 1998). Positive values indicate hypocenters below sea level. For shallow hypocenters, the depth value can be negative. Note: Other standards use different conventions for depth measurement. As an example, GSE 2.0, defines depth with respect to the local surface. If event data is converted from other formats to QuakeML, depth values may have to be modified accordingly. Unit: m


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Origin.type (type bedt:OriginType)

Describes the Origin type. Allowed values are from OriginType.


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Origin.depthType (type bedt:OriginDepthType)

Type of depth determination. Allowed values are from OriginDepthType.


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Origin.epicenterFixed (type boolean)

Boolean flag. True if epicenter was kept fixed for computation of Origin.


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Origin.timeFixed (type boolean)

Boolean flag. True if focal time was kept fixed for computation of the Origin.


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Origin.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

Identifies the method used for locating the event.


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Origin.earthModelID (type co:ResourceReference)

Identifies the earth model used in methodID.


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Origin.referenceSystemID (type co:ResourceReference)

Identifies the reference system used for hypocenter determination. This is only necessary if a modified version of the standard (with local extensions) is used that provides a non-standard coordinate system.


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Origin.quality (type bedt:OriginQuality)

Additional parameters describing the quality of an Origin determination.


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Origin.region (type string)

Can be used to decribe the geographical region of the epicenter location. Useful if an event has multiple origins from different agencies, and these have different region designations. Note that an event-wide region can be defined in the description attribute of an Event object. The user has to take care that this information corresponds to the region attribute of the preferred Origin. String with maximum length of 255 chars.


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Origin.evaluationMode (type co:EvaluationMode)

Evaluation mode of Origin. Allowed values are from EvaluationMode.


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Origin.evaluationStatus (type co:EvaluationStatus)

Evaluation status of Origin. Allowed values are from EvaluationStatus.


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Origin.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

CreationInfo for the Origin object.


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Origin.originUncertainty (type bed:OriginUncertainty)

see OriginUncertainty


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Origin.arrival (type bed:Arrival)

see Arrival


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Origin.comment (type rm:Comment)

Additional comments.


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Origin.compositeTime (type bedt:CompositeTime)

Supplementary information on time of rupture start. Complex descriptions of focal times of historic events are possible, see description of the CompositeTime type. Note that even if compositeTime is used, the mandatory time attribute has to be set, too. It has to be set to the single point in time (with uncertainties allowed) that is most characteristic for the event.


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Pick [element]

TODO


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Pick.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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Pick.time (type co:TimeQuantity)

TODO


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Pick.waveformID (type wf:WaveformStreamID)

TODO


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Pick.methodID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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Pick.filterID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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Pick.backazimuth (type co:RealQuantity)

TODO


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Pick.horizontalSlowness (type co:RealQuantity)

TODO


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Pick.slownessMethodID (type co:ResourceReference)

TODO


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Pick.onset (type bedt:PickOnset)

TODO


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Pick.phaseHint (type bedt:Phase)

TODO


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Pick.polarity (type bedt:PickPolarity)

TODO


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Pick.evaluationMode (type co:EvaluationMode)

TODO


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Pick.evaluationStatus (type co:EvaluationStatus)

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Pick.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

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Pick.comment (type rm:Comment)

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Event [element]

The class Event describes a seismic event which does not necessarily need to be a tectonic earthquake. An event is usually associated with one or more origins, which contain information about focal time and geographical location of the event. Multiple origins can cover automatic and manual locations, a set of location from different agencies, locations generated with different location programs and earth models, etc. Furthermore, an event is usually associated with one or more magnitudes, and with one or more focal mechanism determinations. In standard (bulletin) QuakeML-BED, Origin, Magnitude, StationMagnitude, and FocalMechanismare child elements of Event. In BED-RT (real-time) all these elements are on the same hierarchy level as child elements of EventParameters. The association of origins, magnitudes, and focal mechanisms to a particular event is expressed using references inside Event.


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Event.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

Resource identifier of Event.


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Event.preferredOriginID (type co:ResourceReference)

Refers to the publicID of the preferred Origin object.


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Event.preferredMagnitudeID (type co:ResourceReference)

Refers to the publicID of the preferred Magnitude object.


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Event.preferredFocalMechanismID (type co:ResourceReference)

Refers to the publicID of the preferred FocalMechanism object.


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Event.type (type bedt:EventType)

Describes the type of an event (Storchak et al. 2012). Allowed values are from EventType.


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Event.typeCertainty (type bedt:EventTypeCertainty)

Denotes how certain the information on event type is (Storchak et al. 2012). Allowed values are from EventTypeCertainty.


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Event.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

CreationInfo for the Event object.


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Event.focalMechanism (type bed:FocalMechanism)

TODO


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Event.amplitude (type bed:Amplitude)

see Amplitude


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Event.magnitude (type bed:Magnitude)

see Magnitude


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Event.stationMagnitude (type bed:StationMagnitude)

see StationMagnitude


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Event.origin (type bed:Origin)

see Origin


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Event.pick (type bed:Pick)

see Pick


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Event.comment (type rm:Comment)

Comment for the Event object.


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Event.description (type bedt:EventDescription)

Additional event description, like earthquake name, Flinn-Engdahl region, etc.


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EventParameters [element]

In the bulletin-type (non real-time) model, this class serves as a container for Event objects. In the real-time version, it can hold objects of type Event, Origin, Magnitude, StationMagnitude, FocalMechanism, Reading, Amplitude, and Pick.


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EventParameters.publicID (type co:ResourceReference)

Resource identifier of EventParameters object.


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EventParameters.description (type string)

Description string that can be assigned to the earthquake catalog, or collection of events.


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EventParameters.creationInfo (type rm:CreationInfo)

CreationInfo for the earthquake catalog.


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EventParameters.event (type bed:Event)

see Event


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EventParameters.comment (type rm:Comment)

Additional comments.


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