Earthquake Data JSON feed

Previously on the blog I consumed earthquake data from a CSV produced by the USGS website. Recently I revisited the USGS website and worked on consuming their JSON feed.

You can find information on their feed here: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/geojson.php

I am as giddy as a 11 year old girl at a One Direction concert when I see a website has a JSON feed. Here is the python script I used to consume the data and create the text file to import.



From there I was able to import the data into Google Fusion Tables. I tried using the Fusion Table API to knock this out automagically, but did not have much luck. Plan to keep hacking at the Fusion Table API to see what I can come up with.  In the meantime here is a map of all the Earthquakes that occurred 12/23/2015







Here is a link to the full screen map:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?q=select+col4+from+1aXGZQoukkHHSAKSHuCakYuVbh2qSaBxN5C-APpOE&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=9.66632685018197&lng=1.11668359374994&t=1&z=2&l=col4&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=TWO_COL_LAT_LNG