Erro while plotting earthquake data using meca command

Q&A
1

gmt begin beachball png

** gmt meca meca.dat -JM15c -B -R110/120/30/36 -Sa2c**

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meca.dat file info
meca.dat (106 Bytes)

while running this above code:

meca [ERROR]: Mismatch between actual (8) and expected (9) fields near line 2 in file meca.dat
psconvert [ERROR]: Unable to decode BoundingBox file /home/surya/.gmt/sessions/gmt6.5931/psconvert_5934c.bb (maybe no non-white features were plotted?)

2

There is a problem with your dataset. Try to remove the first empty row.

3

I removed the empty row, but still I’m getting this error
meca [ERROR]: Mismatch between actual (8) and expected (9) fields near line 1 in file meca.dat
psconvert [ERROR]: Unable to decode BoundingBox file /home/surya/.gmt/sessions/gmt6.2364/psconvert_2367c.bb (maybe no non-white features were plotted?)

4

I understand that you are following the example from the unavco course.

I try this scrips and it works.

 gmt begin beachball png
       gmt meca meca.dat -JM10c -R110/120/30/35 -Sa1c -Baf
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Is this your full script? What GMT version are you using?