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Title: United States Historic Earthquakes, 2008

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1568
  • Coverage: 2004

Publishers

  • ESRI

Summary

United States Historic Earthquakes is a point theme representing the locations of significant, historic earthquakes in United States and adjacent Canada and Mexico that caused deaths, property damage, and geological effects, or were otherwise experienced by the resident populations. Attribute information includes the depth, maximum magnitude, Modified Mercalli Intensity, location, date and time of the earthquakes. This dataset is a part of the 2008 ESRI Data & Maps collection.

Subjects

  • United States
  • GeoscientificInformation
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-179.992676, 180.0, 68.68866, 17.25)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-179.992676, 180.0, 68.68866, 17.25)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

National Atlas of the United States and the United States Geological Survey, ESRI. United States Historic Earthquakes, 2008. ESRI. Point data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-esri_2008_usa_quakehis

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English