Earthquake Scraper (USGS) – Real-time & Historical Seismic Data

Get clean earthquake data from the USGS: magnitude, place, exact time, latitude/longitude, depth, felt reports, tsunami flag, alert level, significance and the official event link. Real-time feeds or historical date-range queries. As JSON, CSV or Excel. Free, no key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — $0.0004 per item (~$0.40 per 1,000). No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the earthquakes you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Magnitude and magnitude type (mww, ml, mb…)
• Place description and full title
• Precise time (epoch converted to ISO 8601 UTC)
• Latitude, longitude and depth (km)
• Felt reports, tsunami flag, significance score
• Alert level (green/yellow/orange/red) and review status
• Official USGS event page URL
• Real-time feeds or historical date-range + region queries

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set the input (see example below).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them for continuous monitoring.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "query",
  "startDate": "2026-06-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-22",
  "minMagnitude": 4.5,
  "latitude": 35.7,
  "longitude": 139.7,
  "radiusKm": 500,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Real-time example:

{
  "mode": "recent",
  "feed": "all_day"
}

📦 Output example

{
  "id": "us7000abcd",
  "magnitude": 5.4,
  "place": "10km SW of Testville, CA",
  "time_iso": "2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00",
  "latitude": 37.7,
  "longitude": -122.5,
  "depth_km": 8.3,
  "felt": 42,
  "tsunami": false,
  "significance": 449,
  "mag_type": "mww",
  "alert": "green",
  "status": "reviewed",
  "title": "M 5.4 - 10km SW of Testville, CA",
  "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000abcd",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-22T09:00:00+00:00"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Monitoring – track seismic activity in near real-time with the live feeds
• Alerts – trigger notifications when a quake crosses a magnitude threshold in a region
• Research – build historical datasets by date range and location for analysis
• Insurance / risk – quantify exposure and model catastrophe risk for a portfolio

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.04 · 1,000 → ~$0.40 · 10,000 → ~$4

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Real-time feeds + historical query	✅	one or the other
Region (lat/lon/radius) filter	✅	rarely
Coordinates + depth + tsunami + alert	✅	partial
No key, no proxy	✅	sometimes

🔗 Related actors

• Weather Scraper — forecasts & conditions
• Geocoding Scraper — places ↔ coordinates
• Google News Scraper — news & headlines
• World Bank Scraper — global indicators

❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. How fresh is real-time? The USGS feeds update within minutes of an event. Historical depth? Query any date range supported by the USGS FDSN service.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program public API (public-domain U.S. government data).

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