# Australian Earthquakes (Geoscience Australia) (`resourceful_playbook/au-earthquakes`) Actor

Recent earthquakes from Geoscience Australia's national monitoring network: magnitude, depth, location, time, felt reports and coordinates, for Australia and the surrounding region. Filter by magnitude, days back and Australia-only. Ideal for alerts, dashboards, insurance and research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/resourceful_playbook/au-earthquakes.md
- **Developed by:** [AU Data Tools](https://apify.com/resourceful_playbook) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Australian Earthquakes (Geoscience Australia)

Recent earthquakes in Australia and the surrounding region from Geoscience Australia's national seismic network, as clean JSON.

### What you get

```json
{
  "originTime": "2026-10-20T14:02:11Z",
  "magnitude": 3.4, "magnitudeType": "mla",
  "depthKm": 10,
  "description": "Near Tennant Creek, NT",
  "latitude": -19.6, "longitude": 134.2,
  "locatedInAustralia": true,
  "detailsUrl": "https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/event/ga123456"
}
```

Every record also includes the full `raw` property set from the source (all magnitude estimates, uncertainties, review status).

### Use cases

- Alerts: schedule every 10–15 minutes with `minMagnitude` and `australiaOnly`
- Dashboards and maps of recent seismic activity
- Insurance, mining and infrastructure risk monitoring
- Research datasets (run daily with the 30-day layer and deduplicate on `eventId`)

### Input

| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| `period` | Last 7 or 30 days |
| `minMagnitude` | e.g. `3.0` |
| `australiaOnly` | Exclude the surrounding region |
| `maxResults` | Cap results |

### Pricing

Pay only for what you use: **US$0.005 per run + US$0.001 per result** (about US$1 per 1,000 results). The free Apify plan's monthly credits cover thousands of results, so you can try it at no cost.

### Feedback

Found a bug or want a field added? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab and it will be looked at quickly.

### Notes

Data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia), CC BY 4.0. Not affiliated with Geoscience Australia.

# Actor input Schema

## `period` (type: `string`):

How far back to look.

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

Skip quakes below this magnitude (e.g. 3.0). Leave blank for all.

## `australiaOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only events located in Australia (excludes the surrounding region).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many events (0 = all).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "period": "seven_days",
  "australiaOnly": false,
  "maxResults": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("resourceful_playbook/au-earthquakes").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("resourceful_playbook/au-earthquakes").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 '{}' |
apify call resourceful_playbook/au-earthquakes --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/2ZickWtbZsZrItbZP/builds/8mKP1jW0Wg87xQ1eP/openapi.json