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Highest magnitude earthquake past day

Created by: Semin Ibisevic
Last ran: about 4 hours ago.
Auto-run in: about 21 hours.
Created on: 03 Jun 2012

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Time Recorded (time1714)	Data (data1714)
21 May 2013 06:15:23	[6.5]
20 May 2013 06:15:22	[5.9]
19 May 2013 06:15:21	[5.6]
18 May 2013 06:15:21	[6.1]
17 May 2013 06:15:21	[5.3]

% -------------------------
% import and prepare data

url = 'http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/csv/all/day';
block = urlread(url);
fmt = '%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s';
readData = textscan(block, fmt, 'delimiter', ',');


% -------------------------
% process
T = size(readData{5},1);
magnitudes = zeros(T-1,1);
for t = 2:T
magnitudes(t-1) = str2double( char( readData{5}(t) ) );
end

maxMagn = max(magnitudes);

updatetrend(maxMagn );