The Earthquake data frame has 182 rows and 5 columns.
Arguments
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
Quake
a factor with levels A to U
Richter
the intensity of the earthquake on the Richter scale
distance
the distance from the seismological measuring station to the
epicenter of the earthquake (km)
soil
a factor with levels S (soil) and R (rock)
giving the soil condition at the measuring station
accel
maximum horizontal acceleration observed (g).
Details
Measurements recorded at available seismometer locations for 23
large earthquakes in western North America between 1940 and 1980.
They were originally given in Joyner and Boore (1981); are
mentioned in Brillinger (1987); and are analyzed in Davidian
and Giltinan (1995).