Plotting focal mechanisms in Google Earth is an annoying task to do manually. I wrote a script to convert a text file to beach balls using the obspy package and then to create the corresponding KML file. Each ball is…
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Thomas Lecocq @ the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Plotting focal mechanisms in Google Earth is an annoying task to do manually. I wrote a script to convert a text file to beach balls using the obspy package and then to create the corresponding KML file. Each ball is…