geospatial-earthquake-analysis

name	geospatial-earthquake-analysis
description	Handles loading and processing of earthquake and plate boundary data. Use this for reading, filtering, and joining geospatial datasets related to tectonics (plates, boundaries, earthquake points).

Geospatial Earthquake Analysis

Data Loading

Use geopandas.read_file() to load JSON datasets like earthquakes_2024.json, PB2002_boundaries.json, and PB2002_plates.json.

Processing Workflow

1. Load datasets into GeoDataFrames.
2. Ensure consistent CRS (e.g., EPSG:4326 for WGS84).
3. Filter plates to identify the Pacific plate.
4. Perform spatial queries (e.g., sjoin or custom distance calculations) between earthquake locations and boundary features.