# Changelog of USGS Earthquake Scraper — Global Seismic Events API (`logiover/usgs-earthquake-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/logiover/usgs-earthquake-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/logiover/usgs-earthquake-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-10-15

- Every request now has a hard time limit, so a proxy connection that stalls can no longer hold up the run or push it past its timeout.
- A run that reaches its maximum cost per run now stops cleanly with its results saved and a status message, instead of ending as aborted.
- A proxy group your account cannot use no longer stops the run at start-up; it falls back to the default Apify Proxy.
- Memory is managed within the run's own limit, which removes a rare out-of-memory crash on large pages.
- The default used when the field is left out for `maxResults` is now 6,666 (was 1,000).

### 2026-09-23

- Fleet-wide quality audit. Verified end to end against live data and re-checked the input schema, the output columns and the run configuration.
- Run reliability reviewed: 100.0% of public runs succeeded in the last 30 days.
- Input schema, output schema and pricing configuration reviewed.

### 2026-09-01

- Fleet-wide health check. Verified against this Actor's real run history: 30-day success rate, output row counts, per-field fill rates, and peak memory against the configured memory limit.
- Reviewed for the failure patterns that have cost this fleet runs — unguarded proxy setup, retry loops that can outlast the run's own time budget, and full-page HTML parsing that can exhaust a small container.
- No change to input, output fields or scraping logic.

### 2026-08-11

- Maintenance release: refreshed the build and dependencies.
- Re-verified live execution, non-empty structured output and dataset field/type integrity.
- Reviewed reliability (retries, pagination) and output quality as part of a full-fleet QA pass.

### 2026-08-01

- Completed the August 2026 full health check: verified empty/programmatic default, Console UI default, and two source-informed alternative inputs on Apify.
- Confirmed successful live execution, non-empty structured output, dataset-field/type integrity, and logical sample quality within the 5-minute quality window.

### 2026-07-18

- Maintenance & reliability pass — re-verified end-to-end against live data via the Apify API; confirmed the Actor completes successfully and returns non-empty, well-formed results within the 5-minute quality window on its default input.
- Refreshed build so the latest version is current; no change to inputs, output fields or scraping logic.

### 2026-07-12

- **All filters are now optional.** Running with empty input `{}` returns earthquakes from the past 7 days (all magnitudes), newest first, bounded by `maxResults`.
- **New Time Range dropdown** (Past hour / 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days / Custom range) so users no longer need to hand-type ISO timestamps. Custom range still accepts explicit Start/End times.
- **New Sort Order dropdown** (newest, oldest, largest magnitude, smallest magnitude) and an optional **PAGER Alert Level** dropdown (green/yellow/orange/red).
- **Minimum Magnitude is now optional** (empty = all magnitudes) instead of defaulting to 2.5.
- **Proxy:** defaults to Apify Proxy (Automatic) with an automatic direct-connection fallback on the final retry. The dead DATACENTER-only group is no longer forced.
- **Graceful runs:** on API failure the run now logs the error and exits successfully instead of hard-failing with exit code 1.
- **Numeric fields hardened:** magnitude, depth, coordinates, felt, cdi, mmi, tsunami, nst, dmin, rms, gap, sig, count and maxAllowed are all stored as real numbers (null when unavailable).
- Default `maxResults` lowered to 1000 for fast, cheap default runs (USGS hard cap is still 20000).
- Added dataset field titles/descriptions.