check if location had an earthquake in the last 7 days (realtime) #hackdisrupt #

check if location had an earthquake in the last 7 days (realtime) #hackdisrupt

require 'rubygems'
require 'csv-mapper'
require 'open-uri'
require 'activesupport'

def had_earthquake(location)

source = "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs7day-M1.txt"

problem_regions = []
 count = 0

FasterCSV.foreach(open(source)) do |row|
   if row[9].index(location.titlecase) != nil 
     #CSV format: Src 0 ,Eqid 1,Version 2,Datetime 3,Lat 4,Lon 5,Magnitude 6,Depth 7,NST 8,Region 9
     region =  {:datetime => row[3], :latitude => row[4], :longitude =>  row[5], :magnitude => row[6],
                 :depth => row[7], :region => row[9]}
     #puts region.inspect
     problem_regions[count] =  region
     count = count + 1    
   end   
  end # end of CSV parser
   
 return problem_regions #returns [] when location has no earthquakes  
end
 #puts problem_regions.inspect

 puts had_earthquake('alaska').inspect