🌍 EMSC Earthquakes Scraper

🚀 Export EMSC records in seconds. Pipe results straight into your spreadsheet, dashboard, or data warehouse.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 11 fields per record · Public EMSC data · Real-time updates

The EMSC Earthquakes Scraper turns the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre FDSN endpoint into a clean structured dataset of global earthquakes. Filter by magnitude, date range, and bounding box.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🌍 Seismologists	Pull global earthquake catalogs.
🚨 Emergency teams	Set up region-specific alerts.
🏗️ Engineers	Run hazard assessments with real catalog data.
📰 Journalists	Verify events with an authoritative source.

📋 What the EMSC Earthquakes Scraper does

• Fetches the public EMSC feed at https://www.seismicportal.eu/fdsnws/event/1/query.
• Parses the response and flattens each record into one structured row.
• Casts numeric values to numbers, dates to ISO strings.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean error record instead of crashing.
• Pushes everything to the dataset, ready for instant download.

💡 Why it matters: EMSC publishes the data, but the raw response is awkward to work with. This actor normalizes everything into a flat schema that drops straight into pandas, BigQuery, or a Google Sheet.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

See the Input tab on the Apify console for the full list of supported filters. Every filter is optional. maxItems controls how many records are returned.

Example

{
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know. Free users are capped at 10 records per run as a preview. Paid users can pull up to 1,000,000 records.

📊 Output

Each record is a flat object. The error field is always last.

Field	Type	Description
🆔 event_id	string	EMSC event identifier.
📅 time	string	Origin time.
📍 lat	number	Latitude.
📍 lon	number	Longitude.
🌊 depth	number	Depth in km.
📏 mag	number	Magnitude.
🏷️ mag_type	string	Magnitude scale (mb, ML, Mw, etc.).
🗺️ region	string	Flynn-Engdahl region.
🏢 agency	string	Source agency.
🔬 type	string	Event type.
🕒 last_update	string	EMSC last update time.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set if the upstream response was an error.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with the free Apify plan (10-record preview). | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case keys ready for BI tools. | | 🔢 | Auto-casts numeric and date fields. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as a clean record. | | 💾 | Push to dataset and download in any supported format. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Clean keys	Numeric casting	Error handling
Roll your own fetch	30 min +	No	No	No
This Actor	5 sec, no install	Yes	Yes	Yes

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust the input filters or leave defaults.
3. Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready.

💼 Business use cases

🌍 Global catalog. Pull every event above magnitude 4 in the last 7 days for a worldwide map.

🚨 Regional alerts. Use the bounding-box filter to monitor a specific area continuously.

📊 Hazard studies. Build a historical catalog filtered by magnitude and depth.

🛰️ Sensor calibration. Correlate with private network observations.

🔌 Automating EMSC Earthquakes Scraper

• Make / Zapier. Trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Slack, or your CRM.
• Cron schedule. Apify's native scheduler runs this on whatever cadence you need.
• Webhooks. Get a POST to your endpoint the moment a run finishes.
• Pipe to your warehouse. Native Apify integrations move datasets straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Use real public data for classroom projects.

🧪 Personal research. Build your own dashboards and notebooks.

🤝 Non-profit & open data. Power public dashboards without writing client code.

🧰 Tinkering & prototyping. Spin up a fresh data feed in seconds.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your specific workflow to the actor's inputs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is the data free? Yes. EMSC publishes the FDSN service openly.

❓ How fresh is the data? EMSC ingests reports within minutes from agencies worldwide.

❓ Does this need an API key? No.

❓ How many events can I pull? EMSC limits a single query to about 20,000 events.

❓ What magnitude scales appear? mb, ML, Mw, mwp, depending on the reporting agency.

❓ Will the schema change? Core fields are stable.

❓ Is this scraping or API? API. FDSN is a standardized seismological web service.

❓ Can I filter by region? Yes, use the bounding-box latitude and longitude inputs.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via Apify's scheduler.

❓ What if no events match? The dataset will be empty. Try widening magnitude or date range.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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