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Explore Earthquakes
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Explore Earthquakes

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Charlotte Wickham

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library(tidyverse)
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Read a clean version of data:

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la_palma <- read_csv("la-palma.csv")
Rows: 11347 Columns: 5
── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Delimiter: ","
dbl  (4): Longitude, Latitude, Depth(km), Magnitude
dttm (1): DateTime

ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.

Create spatial plot:

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#|   against longitude."
la_palma |> 
  ggplot(aes(Longitude, Latitude)) +
  geom_point(aes(color = Magnitude, size = 40-`Depth(km)`)) +
  scale_color_viridis_c(direction = -1) + 
  scale_size(range = c(0.5, 2), guide = "none") +
  theme_bw()

A scatterplot of earthquake locations plotting latitude against longitude.

Locations of earthquakes on La Palma since 2017