Search APIs

Get recent earthquakes worldwide from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) seismic network. Returns location, magnitude, depth, time, and coordinates for each event. Filter by minimum magnitude (default 2.5) and limit results. Useful for seismology dashboards, natural disaster monitoring tools, safety alert systems, and educational apps about plate tectonics. Data is updated in near real-time.

Get only the most significant recent earthquakes (magnitude 6.0 and above) from USGS. These are the events that can cause major damage and are felt across wide areas. Returns location, magnitude, depth, and time. Useful for disaster response dashboards, news apps covering natural disasters, and global risk assessment tools that focus on high-impact seismic events.

Find earthquakes near a specific location within a configurable radius (default 500 km). Provide latitude and longitude coordinates to search around. Returns matching earthquakes with distance from your point. Useful for location-based safety apps, property risk assessment tools, local seismic activity monitors, and travel apps that inform users about nearby geological activity.

Connect to a Server-Sent Events stream for real-time push updates. Subscribe to broad topics or filter to specific items using the topic:filter syntax. Events include unique IDs for reconnection (pass Last-Event-ID header to resume). Heartbeat keeps the connection alive. Use curl -N or JavaScript EventSource. 14 topics available: exchange rates, crypto, electricity, commodities, economics, holidays, weather, earthquakes, space weather, NASA, sports, news, VAT, and currencies.

Generate a comprehensive travel safety report for any destination country, combining health indicators, earthquake risk, weather conditions, political stability data, and holiday information. Compares the destination safety profile against your home country. Returns an overall safety score with category breakdowns for health, natural disaster risk, and security. Perfect for travel insurance apps, corporate travel management tools, and trip planning platforms that need to inform travelers about destination risks.

Comprehensive location profile: combines weather, air quality, elevation, light pollution, nearby earthquakes, and timezone into a single location report.