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USGS Earthquake Catalog

earthquake.usgs.gov

Every earthquake in the USGS ComCat catalogue, queryable by time, place and magnitude.

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1Request

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Code follows the fields above
curl "https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/data/usgs/catalogs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTCRW_API_KEY"

2Response example

A sample shape. Press Run to see live data from USGS Earthquake Catalog.

JSON
{
  "catalogs": [
    "20",
    "38457511",
    "… 60 more items"
  ],
  "contributors": [
    "admin",
    "ak",
    "… 27 more items"
  ],
  "producttypes": [
    "1903 Tonga Earthquake",
    "associate",
    "… 59 more items"
  ],
  "eventtypes": [
    "accidental explosion",
    "acoustic noise",
    "… 44 more items"
  ],
  "magnitudetypes": [
    "0",
    "2",
    "… 39 more items"
  ]
}

Attribution: Source: U.S. Geological Survey

Licence: A work of the United States Government, not subject to domestic copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105, published by the agency as open data.

Ask with this source

A prompt for your agent that names this source and how to call it through the crw MCP.

  • Service catalogs and vocabularies

    Use USGS Earthquake Catalog (usgs) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Service catalogs and vocabularies" (catalogs). You need the legal values for the catalog, contributor or eventtype filters before running a search. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "usgs" and capability "catalogs". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Earthquake count

    Use USGS Earthquake Catalog (usgs) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Earthquake count" (count). You only need how many earthquakes match, or want to check a query is under the 20000-event cap before running it. Example options: starttime=2026-09-01, endtime=2026-10-01, minmagnitude=5. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "usgs" and capability "count". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Single earthquake detail

    Use USGS Earthquake Catalog (usgs) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Single earthquake detail" (event). You already hold a USGS event id and want everything known about that one earthquake. Example options: eventid=us6000jllz, includeallorigins=false, includeallmagnitudes=false. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "usgs" and capability "event". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Real-time earthquake feed

    Use USGS Earthquake Catalog (usgs) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Real-time earthquake feed" (feed). You want the latest quakes right now and would rather hit a cached feed than build a date-bounded search. Example options: feed=significant_week. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "usgs" and capability "feed". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>