CEQD v1.0 An MFC class to support retrieval of recent Earthquake data from the USGS (Obsolete)

The class provides for retrieval of recent Earthquake information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) via the finger protocol.

Features

• Simple and clean C++ interface.
• The interface provided is synchronous which provides an easier programming model than using asynchronous sockets.
• The code does not rely on the MFC socket classes. These classes have a number of shortcomings, one of which causes problems when they are used in NT services.
• The code can be used in a console application without any problems (Again this is not the case for the MFC socket classes).
• A configurable timeout for the connection can be set through the main class method.

The enclosed zip file contains the CEQD source code and a simple console program which exercises the class.

Copyright

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

Updates

V1.0 (18 October 1999)

• First public release.

20 December 2005

• Please note that this code is now obsolete because the USGS no longer provide the finger service which this code depends on. If you want to obtain earthquake information for your application, I would suggest that your code download and parse http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/finger/quake.asc or ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/cnss/quake as a replacement for my code. You can use the Wininet or WinHHTP APIs to accomplish this. Thanks to Sam Hobbs for reporting this. If enough people request a replacement for CEQD, then I may consider writing a replacement class.