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Ontology for USGS's Earthquake Dataset

Release 2023-10-18

Latest version:
http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/ontology/usgs-earthquake
Revision:
v 3.0
Authors:
The KnowWhereGraph Project
Contributors:
Shirly Stephen, Mitchell Faulk
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The KnowWhereGraph Project. Ontology for USGS's Earthquake Dataset. Revision: v 3.0.
Ontology Specification Draft

Overview of the raw dataset back to ToC

  • Name of dataset: ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat)
  • Source Agency: USGS
  • Data source location: API Documentation - Earthquake Catalog
  • Metadata documentation: ComCat Documentation
  • Type of data source: API
  • Format of data returned:CSV (GeoJSON, KML, xml, text also supported)
  • Data update interval:real-time

Schema Diagram

Figure. USGS Earthquake Schema Diagram.

Cross reference for Ontology for USGS's Earthquake Dataset classes, properties and dataproperties back to ToC

This section provides details for each class and property defined by Ontology for USGS's Earthquake Dataset.

Classes

Earthquakec back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/ontology/Earthquake

This class denotes earthquakes from USGS's Earthquake Catalog.
has super-classes
feature c, feature of interest c

Earthquake Observable Propertyc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/ontology/EarthquakeObservableProperty

This class denotes measured properties for an earthquake event in the USGS’s Earthquake Catalog dataset.
has super-classes
observable property c
has members
alert ni, cdi ni, code ni, depth ni, dmin ni, felt ni, gap ni, id ni, magType ni, magnitude ni, mmi ni, net ni, nst ni, place ni, rms ni, sig ni, sources ni, status ni, tsunami ni, type ni, types ni, tz ni, updated ni, url ni

Earthquake Observationc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/EarthquakeObservation

This class denotes earthquake observations for specific earthquake observable properties.
has super-classes
observation c

Earthquake Observation Collectionc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/ontology/EarthquakeObservationCollection

has super-classes
observation collection c

featurec back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Feature

has super-classes
spatial object c
has sub-classes
Earthquake c

geometryc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Geometry

has super-classes
spatial object c

instantc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/2006/time#Instant

has super-classes
temporal entity c

Object Properties

has feature of interestop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/hasFeatureOfInterest

is inverse of
is feature of interest of op

Named Individuals

alertni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.alert

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

cdini back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.cdi

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

codeni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.code

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

depthni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.depth

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

dminni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.dmin

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

feltni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.felt

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

gapni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.gap

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

idni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.ids

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

magnitudeni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.mag

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

magTypeni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.magType

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

mmini back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.mmi

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

netni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.net

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

nstni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.nst

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

placeni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.place

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

rmsni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.rms

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

signi back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.sig

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

sourcesni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.sources

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

statusni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.status

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

tsunamini back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.tsunami

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

typeni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.type

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

typesni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.types

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

tzni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.tz

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

updatedni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.updated

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

urlni back to ToC or Named Individual ToC

IRI: http://stko-kwg.geog.ucsb.edu/lod/resource/earthquakeObservableProperty.url

belongs to
Earthquake Observable Property c

Legend back to ToC

c: Classes
op: Object Properties
dp: Data Properties
ni: Named Individuals

Acknowledgments back to ToC

The authors would like to thank Silvio Peroni for developing LODE, a Live OWL Documentation Environment, which is used for representing the Cross Referencing Section of this document and Daniel Garijo for developing Widoco, the program used to create the template used in this documentation.