Quakecord

A discord bot that retrieves and displays information about recent earthquakes from the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). Invite it here: https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=787970287550464010&permissions=2048&scope=bot

Table of Contents

• Program
• Data Source
• Libraries Used
• Instructions
• Future Development

Program

Quakecord is a discord bot that provides information about recent earthquakes to users in a Discord server. It retrieves the information from the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) and displays it in a user-friendly format.

Data Source

The data used by Quakecord is sourced from the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The EMSC is a leading provider of real-time earthquake information and has a vast database of earthquake data.

Libraries Used

Quakecord uses the following libraries:

• Requests
• Discord.py
• Folium

Instructions

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Create a virtual environment and activate it.
3. Install the required libraries using pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. Create a bot in Discord's Developer Portal and get its token.
5. Add the bot to your Discord server.
6. In the quakecord.py file, replace TOKEN with your bot's token.
7. Run the quakecord.py file to start the bot.

Future Development

• Ability to notify users of earthquakes that meet certain criteria.
• More detailed historical information, including graphs and maps.
• Adding more data sources for earthquake information.
• Improving the visual representation of the information provided by the bot.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the open-source community. If you would like to contribute to Quakecord, please follow these guidelines:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a branch for your changes (e.g. feature/new-feature or bugfix/fix-error)
3. Commit your changes with descriptive commit messages
4. Push your changes to your forked repository
5. Create a pull request to the main repository with a clear explanation of your changes and the problem they solve.

License

Quakecord is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.