The Geometry definition secction will be auto-populated if it finds a suitable X and Y coordinate fields. In the File format section, select Custom delimiters and check Tab. In the Create a Layer from a Delimited Text File dialog, click on Browse and specify the path to the text file you downloaded. Click on Layers ‣ Add Delimited Text Layer. You will see that each field is separated by a TAB. In case of the Significant Earthquake Database, the data already comes as a text file which contains latitude and longitude of the earthquake centers along with other related attributes. Once you have the data exported this way, you can open it in a text editor such as Notepad to view the contents. If you have a spreadsheet, use Save As function in your program to save it as a Tab Delimited File or a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. To import this data to QGIS, you will have to save it as a text file and need at least 2 columns which contain the X and Y coordinates. Learn more.ĭownload Significant Earthquake Database text file.įor convenience, you may directly download a copy of both the datasets from the linksĮxamine your tabular data source. NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center produces a great dataset of all significant earthquakes since 2150 BC. We will be importing a text file of earthquake data to QGIS. Also, if you have a list lat/long coordinates, you can easily import this data in your GIS project. Many times the GIS data comes in a table or an Excel spreadsheet.

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