Live record · USGSReports quakes after they happen. Not an alert system.

Developers

Pay per request. No subscription.

Buy credits once and spend them as you go. One credit is worth $0.001 before bonuses, a request costs 1 or 2 credits, and credits never expire. New accounts start with 500 free credits.

01 — Credit packs

Larger packs carry a bonus

  1. $10

    10,000 credits

    No bonus · $1.00 per 1,000 credits

  2. $200

    240,000 credits

    +20% bonus · $0.83 per 1,000 credits

02 — Endpoints

What a request costs

API endpoints and their credit cost
EndpointReturnsCredits
GET /api/v1/nearEarthquakes within a radius of a point1
GET /api/v1/recentLatest earthquakes worldwide, by time or magnitude1
GET /api/v1/summaryCounts, strongest event and nearest city for a point2

Requests that fail on our side are refunded automatically, and malformed requests are free. The limit is 120 requests per minute per key. The data comes from USGS and is informational, not an alert service. See the docs and the terms.

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