🌋 NASA EONET Natural Events Scraper

🚀 Track Earth's natural events live, in seconds. Pull active wildfires, severe storms, volcanoes, floods, sea ice, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and more from NASA's official Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker. Filter by category, status, magnitude, and bounding box. No sign-up, no scraping, no parser to maintain.

The NASA EONET Natural Events Scraper queries the official EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker) feed and returns up to 19 structured fields per record, including the event ID, title, status (open / closed), description, categories, first and last reporting timestamps, latitude / longitude, peak magnitude with units, full geometry, and the upstream reporting sources (CAL FIRE, USGS, NOAA, Smithsonian, NASA, and more).

The catalogue covers every category of natural event NASA tracks worldwide, from wildfires and severe storms to volcanic activity, sea-and-lake ice, floods, dust and haze, earthquakes, drought, landslides, snow events, temperature extremes, water-color anomalies, and manmade events. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes. Filters run server-side, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Insurance and reinsurance teams, climate scientists, GIS engineers, emergency-management agencies, journalists, energy traders, supply-chain risk teams, civic-tech and disaster-response NGOs	Catastrophe-event monitoring, parametric-insurance triggers, climate research feeds, emergency dashboards, supply-chain disruption alerts, news-desk situational awareness, satellite-imagery cueing

📋 What the EONET Natural Events Scraper does

Seven filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🌋 Category filter. Pick a single category from 13 (wildfires, severe storms, volcanoes, floods, sea and lake ice, earthquakes, drought, landslides, manmade, snow, temperature extremes, dust and haze, water color).
• 🚦 Status filter. Open (active), closed (ended), or all.
• 📅 Days back. Restrict to events with activity in the last N days (1-365).
• 📡 Reporting source filter. Restrict to a single monitoring agency (CAL FIRE, IRWIN, NOAA NHC, USGS, Smithsonian Volcanism, Copernicus EMS, FEMA, NASA Hurricane updates, and 25+ more).
• 📊 Magnitude bounds. Filter by minimum and maximum event magnitude (units depend on category - acres for wildfires, knots for storms, and so on).
• 📐 Bounding box. Restrict events to a geographic region (minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat).
• 🔢 Max items. Cap the dataset size for quick previews or full pulls.

Each record includes the EONET event ID, the event URL, title, current status (open / closed), the close date if ended, an optional description, the human-readable categories and their slug IDs, the first and last reporting timestamps, the latest known latitude and longitude, the peak magnitude with units, the geometry count, geometry type (Point or Polygon), every reporting source with its origin URL, the full geometry array (every position the event has been reported at), and a scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: real-time natural-event tracking drives parametric-insurance payouts, news-desk situational awareness, climate-risk dashboards, and supply-chain alerting. Building your own pipeline means writing a feed client, mapping 13 categories to internal taxonomies, normalising magnitude units, and refreshing constantly. This Actor skips all of that and gives you a clean refreshed snapshot on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: categories, categoriesDetail, categoryIds, closedAt, description, firstReportedAt, geometry, geometryCount, geometryReturnedCount, geometryTruncated, geometryType, id, lastReportedAt, latitude, longitude, magnitudeUnit, peakDate, peakMagnitudeValue, scrapedAt, sources, status, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the NASA EONET Natural Events Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a category (or leave empty), choose a status, optionally add a date window, magnitude range, or bounding box, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor pull the live tracker.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your dataset in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to a downloaded events dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NASA, the Earth Observatory, or any of the agencies whose reports EONET aggregates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open natural-event data is collected.

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