🖼 JMA Japan Earthquake Scraper

🚀 Scrape the Japan Meteorological Agency public earthquake list for events affecting Japan.

🕒 Last updated 2026-07-17 · 📊 11 fields per record · no API key needed

Pulls origin time, hypocenter, magnitude, max intensity, and tsunami info. Every record is mapped to a consistent schema - event id, origin time, hypocenter, magnitude, max intensity, lat and more, so you can filter, join and export without any glue code. No account or API key required to try it.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Analysts, developers, researchers and operators who need this data as clean rows	Data collection, enrichment, monitoring, and feeding apps, sheets or models

📋 What the JMA Japan Earthquake Scraper does

• Collects the records you ask for as clean, structured rows
• Returns 11 fields per record including event id, origin time, hypocenter, magnitude, max intensity, lat
• Consistent, flat schema - ready for a spreadsheet, database or app
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💡 Why it matters: the raw source returns nested, paged responses. This Actor flattens them into one clean row per record, so the data drops straight into your workflow.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
minMagnitude	number	Only include events at or above this magnitude.
maxItems	integer	Cap on the number of results. Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.

{"maxItems":25}

📊 Output

Each item is one record with 11 fields:

Field	Type	Description
event_id	string	Event ID
origin_time	string	Origin Time
hypocenter	string	Hypocenter
magnitude	number	Magnitude
max_intensity	string	Max Intensity
lat	number	Latitude
lon	number	Longitude
depth_km	number	Depth (km)
region	string	Region
tsunami_info	string	Tsunami Info
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Clean, flat schema - ready to use
• No API key or account needed
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
• Pay-per-event billing - only pay for records returned

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Actor on Apify Console
3. Fill in the input fields
4. Click Start
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Use cases

Research and analysis - study the data at scale in your own tools.

Enrichment - add structured records to a database, sheet or app.

Monitoring - track changes over time with scheduled runs.

Datasets - build clean datasets for reporting, dashboards or models.

🔌 Automating JMA Japan Earthquake Scraper

Trigger the Actor via Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, n8n or any HTTP webhook on Apify's integration platform.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Copilot and ask how to integrate the data into your workflow.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No - just set the input and run.

❓ Free users? Capped at 10 items per run - perfect for testing.

❓ What output formats? CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - pick on the Storage tab.

❓ Is the data live? Yes - fetched at run time from www.jma.go.jp.

❓ Can I schedule it? Yes - use Apify's scheduler or any webhook integration.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify provides webhooks, REST API, scheduled runs, dataset downloads, and integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with any data source named above. Only publicly available data is collected.