Editorial Process
plainquake aggregates the USGS earthquake catalog programmatically and renders the figures server-side. The people below set the data framing, methodology, and corrections standards you read here.
Open data: plainquake-country-statistics.csv (same distribution as the homepage Dataset).
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PlainQuake is a data journalism portal that analyzes earthquake data from the USGS to provide insights into seismic events. The team's content is compiled by our editorial process, and it does not accept payment from entities it covers to ensure impartiality. As, PlainQuake delivers accessible, fact-based reporting on earthquakes using public government data.
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plainquake is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.