USGS Earthquakes

byAPI3·Free·Airnode v0.1.0

The USGS earthquake catalogue: every seismic event the Advanced National Seismic System has located, worldwide rather than American despite who runs it, from the last few minutes back through the historical record. This Airnode wraps its FDSN event service, so a consumer receives what the catalogue said at a moment with a signature saying this Airnode read it then.

That matters more here than it looks. An earthquake's magnitude and location are revised as more stations report: an event is first located automatically within minutes and reviewed by a seismologist afterwards, and the reviewed figure is often not the automatic one. So a response is what USGS believed at that time, the status field says which of the two it was, and asking again tomorrow is a legitimately different answer for the same event.

The format parameter is required rather than defaulted. The service answers QuakeML XML when nothing asks otherwise, and passing geojson is what produces the response this document describes.

Data source: U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program (https://earthquake.usgs.gov). USGS-produced data is in the public domain and may be reused commercially; USGS asks to be acknowledged, which this document does. USGS does not endorse, and is not affiliated with, API3, AirnodeHub or this Airnode.

Every response carries an EIP-191 signature from the Airnode that served it, so the data can be attributed back to its source rather than trusted on reputation.

Interface

Served at https://airnode-usgs.fly.dev/. The two requests below are everything the endpoint speaks, and each can be sent from this page. What comes back is verified right here in the browser.