USGS Quake Monitor

Keyless live earthquake monitoring from USGS feeds (all/significant x hour/day/week/month). Filter by minimum magnitude. Output: one JSON item per quake (time, magnitude, place, region, depth, coords, felt reports, USGS URL).

What you get

Every run writes a dataset with one row per record:

{
  "id": "us7000tdw6",
  "timeIso": "2026-09-03T11:39:41.981000+00:00",
  "timeEpochMs": 1788435581981,
  "magnitude": 5.4,
  "magnitudeType": "mb",
  "place": "21 km WNW of Jiangyou, China",
  "region": null,
  "depth_km": null,
  "tsunami": false,
  "felt_reports": 6,
  "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000tdw6",
  "coords": [
    31.8458,
    104.5066
  ],
  "severity": 78,
  "severityBreakdown": {
    "magnitude": 34.0,
    "recency": 34.2,
    "shallow": 10.0
  },
  "distance_from_largest_km": 7014.2,
  "reference_quake_id": "us7000tdvt",
  "feedRequested": "significant_week",
  "feedUsed": "significant_week",
  "feedWidened": false
}

Input

{
  "feed": "significant_week",
  "minMagnitude": 5.0,
  "limit": 25
}

Field	Type	Description
feed	string	Feed: the feed parameter. Default: "significant_week".
minMagnitude	integer	MinMagnitude: the minmagnitude parameter. Default: 5.0.
limit	integer	Limit: the limit parameter. Default: 25.

Use cases

• Monitor on a schedule — run this Actor on a timer and get a fresh, normalized snapshot every time; diff the datasets to see what changed.
• Feed a dashboard or model — clean, one-JSON-item-per-record output is ready to pipe into a spreadsheet, database, or LLM prompt without any post-processing.
• Research & due diligence — pull a structured set of records for a topic, name, or window without scraping the public source by hand.

Limits & notes

• No API key, no login: it only reads public endpoints/feeds. If the upstream source is degraded, the run still succeeds and returns an honest status item instead of failing.
• Results reflect what the public source returned at run time (top-N windows, newest-first where applicable).
• Pay-per-event via synthetic events: each default-dataset item is billed through apify-default-dataset-item ($0.001 per item), plus apify-actor-start.
• Free to try on the free plan; PPE pricing applies to paid-plan users.

Categories

NEWS, OTHER