# Earthquake Scraper (USGS) – Real-time & Historical Seismic Data (`ninhothedev/earthquake-scraper`) Actor

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast earthquake scraper (USGS)! Real-time & historical quakes — magnitude, place, depth, coords & time. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Filter by feed or region & pull thousands of events for monitoring ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/earthquake-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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:

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

### 📦 Output example

```json
{
  "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](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/weather-scraper) — forecasts & conditions
- [Geocoding Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/geocoding-scraper) — places ↔ coordinates
- [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/google-news-scraper) — news & headlines
- [World Bank Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/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).

***

**Keywords:** earthquake scraper, usgs, seismic data, earthquake api, real-time earthquakes, magnitude, tsunami, disaster monitoring, risk, JSON CSV Excel

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

recent = pull a live USGS feed (fast, near real-time). query = FDSN date-range search with a magnitude threshold and optional region filter.

## `feed` (type: `string`):

Which live feed to pull when mode=recent. all\_day = past 24h, all\_week = past 7 days, significant\_week = notable quakes this week, 4.5\_month = M4.5+ over the past 30 days.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Start of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD (UTC), e.g. 2026-06-01. Used only when mode=query.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

End of the date range in YYYY-MM-DD (UTC), e.g. 2026-06-22. Used only when mode=query.

## `minMagnitude` (type: `string`):

Only return earthquakes with a magnitude at or above this value (mode=query). Lower values return many more small quakes.

## `latitude` (type: `integer`):

Latitude of the center point for a radius search (mode=query). Pair with longitude and radiusKm to restrict results to a region.

## `longitude` (type: `integer`):

Longitude of the center point for a radius search (mode=query). Pair with latitude and radiusKm to restrict results to a region.

## `radiusKm` (type: `integer`):

Maximum distance in kilometers from the center point (latitude/longitude) for a radius search (mode=query).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of earthquakes to return. Caps both feed and query results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "recent",
  "feed": "all_day",
  "startDate": "2026-06-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-22",
  "minMagnitude": "2.5",
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `earthquakes` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startDate": "2026-06-01",
    "endDate": "2026-06-22",
    "minMagnitude": "2.5",
    "maxItems": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/earthquake-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startDate": "2026-06-01",
    "endDate": "2026-06-22",
    "minMagnitude": "2.5",
    "maxItems": 500,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/earthquake-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startDate": "2026-06-01",
  "endDate": "2026-06-22",
  "minMagnitude": "2.5",
  "maxItems": 500
}' |
apify call ninhothedev/earthquake-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninhothedev/earthquake-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PZNEV1ZVQxz71YmTN/builds/GTltXtUOQRKO3qI1a/openapi.json