electricsheepafrica/africa-morocco-earthquake-eq-us7000kufc

Morocco: Earthquake - 6.8M - Sep 2023

Publisher: WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-sa · Updated: 2024-05-24

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Abstract

ADAM ID: eq_us7000kufc Magnitude 6.8 earthquake at 18.535 depth occurred on Sep 08 2023 in 26km SW of Amizmiz. It impacted 380662 people. The epicentre was at latitude 31.1095 longitude -8.4404.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2024-05-24. Geographic scope: MAR.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Demographics and population
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	34
Columns	11 (6 numeric, 5 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	27 rows
Test split	6 rows
Geographic scope	MAR
Publisher	WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping
HDX last updated	2024-05-24

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Variables

Identifier / Metadata — unnamed_0 (range 0.0–43.0), adm0_name (Morocco, Algeria), adm1_name (Souss - Massa - Draâ, Marrakech - Tensift - Al Haouz, Guelmim - Es-Semara), adm2_name (Tabelbala, Agadir-Ida ou Tanane, El Hajeb), esa_source (HDX) and 1 others.

Other — 3_mmi (range 0.0–3814878.0), 4_mmi (range 0.0–1296759.0), 5_mmi (range 0.0–1417296.0), 6_mmi (range 0.0–191124.0), 7_mmi (range 0.0–60456.0).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-morocco-earthquake-eq-us7000kufc")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
unnamed_0	int64	0.0%	0.0 – 43.0 (mean 22.2941)
adm0_name	object	0.0%	Morocco, Algeria
adm1_name	object	0.0%	Souss - Massa - Draâ, Marrakech - Tensift - Al Haouz, Guelmim - Es-Semara
adm2_name	object	0.0%	Tabelbala, Agadir-Ida ou Tanane, El Hajeb
3_mmi	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 3814878.0 (mean 179719.9706)
4_mmi	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 1296759.0 (mean 203200.7941)
5_mmi	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 1417296.0 (mean 89478.2647)
6_mmi	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 191124.0 (mean 15309.3824)
7_mmi	float64	0.0%	0.0 – 60456.0 (mean 2253.1176)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-11

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
unnamed_0	0.0	43.0	22.2941	22.5
3_mmi	0.0	3814878.0	179719.9706	8336.0
4_mmi	0.0	1296759.0	203200.7941	15808.5
5_mmi	0.0	1417296.0	89478.2647	0.0
6_mmi	0.0	191124.0	15309.3824	0.0
7_mmi	0.0	60456.0	2253.1176	0.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_morocco_earthquake_eq_us7000kufc,
  title     = {Morocco: Earthquake - 6.8M - Sep 2023},
  author    = {WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping},
  year      = {2024},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/morocco-earthquake-eq-us7000kufc},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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