Extended Exercise: the biggest Earthquake in the UK this Century

GeoJSON is a json-based file format for sharing geographic data. One example dataset is the USGS earthquake data:

import requests
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":"2015-11-22",
        "orderby":"time-asc"}
                   )

quakes.text[0:100]

'{"type":"FeatureCollection","metadata":{"generated":1493848661000,"url":"https://earthquake.usgs.gov'

Exercise: Determine the location of the largest magnitude earthquake in the UK this century.

You’ll need to:

• Get the text of the web result
• Parse the data as JSON
• Understand how the data is structured into dictionaries and lists
  • Where is the magnitude?
  • Where is the place description or coordinates?
• Program a search through all the quakes to find the biggest quake.
• Find the place of the biggest quake
• Form a URL for Google Maps at that latitude and longitude
  • look back at Example Data Analysis
• Display that image

You will need to include the following at the top of your Notebook file:

%matplotlib inline
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

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