<# .SYNOPSIS Lists major earthquakes since 30 days .DESCRIPTION This PowerShell script lists earthquakes with magnitude >= 6.0 for the last 30 days. .EXAMPLE PS> ./list-earthquakes .LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell .NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz / License: CC0 #> $Format="csv" # csv, geojson, kml, text, xml $MinMagnitude=5.8 $OrderBy="magnitude" # time, time-asc, magnitude, magnitude-asc function ListEarthquakes { write-progress "Loading data ..." $Earthquakes = (invoke-webRequest -uri "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=$Format&minmagnitude=$MinMagnitude&orderby=$OrderBy" -userAgent "curl" -useBasicParsing).Content | ConvertFrom-CSV foreach ($Quake in $Earthquakes) { new-object PSObject -Property @{ Mag=$Quake.mag; Depth=$Quake.depth; Location=$Quake.place; Time=$Quake.time } } } try { ListEarthquakes | format-table -property @{e='Mag';width=5},@{e='Location';width=42},@{e='Depth';width=6},Time exit 0 # success } catch { "⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])" exit 1 }