NZ GeoNet quake list (Apify Actor)

MMI floor on the public GeoNet quake list. It sends one GET https://api.geonet.org.nz/quake?MMI= and writes allowlisted rows. It does not page, and it does not call felt reports, /intensity, /network/, /news/, /p/, /assets/, quake history, or the full catalogue.

The GeoNet API itself returns at most 100 quakes from the last 365 days. This Actor does not add pages and does not sell a decade or a catalogue dump. truncated in the run log is true only when that single response contains 100 or more features (the documented cap was hit). It is not a dataset field. Rows with quality=deleted are removed after that check, so the dataset can be shorter than 100 even when truncated is true.

Not endorsed by Earth Sciences New Zealand, GeoNet, NHC, LINZ, NEMA, or MBIE. The attribution line is the credit. It does not add an endorsement claim. GeoNet logos are not downloaded or embedded.

Changes from the public list: an MMI floor is applied (integer -1 through 8); rows with quality=deleted are removed; the list is capped at 100 quakes from the last 365 days, not the full catalogue. Coordinates and geometry are not emitted.

Data source called (default): https://api.geonet.org.nz/quake?MMI=3

Accept is application/vnd.geo+json;version=2. Fetch uses redirect: 'error' (redirects are not followed). The body cap is 8 MiB.

There is no URL input. url, feedUrl, quakeUrl, and sourceUrl are ignored. A process environment override GEONET_QUAKE_BASE_URL is accepted only when it is https://api.geonet.org.nz and the path is exactly /quake (optional MMI query, which is then replaced by the input floor). Any other host, path, or query key is rejected. Felt reports, intensity, network, news, /p/, and /assets/ cannot be selected.

Output fields

Each dataset item is an allowlist. Extra GeoJSON properties are dropped before push. latitude, longitude, geometry, and coordinates are never emitted (a point was on the live feature; the build-task allowlist does not include it).

Field	Description
publicID	GeoNet public id
time	Origin time as returned
depth	Depth as returned (kilometres)
magnitude	Magnitude as returned
locality	Place phrase. Not a person name
mmi	MMI on the feature
quality	best, preliminary, or automatic. deleted is dropped
source	The /quake URL this run called, including the MMI floor
attribution	Exact line below, on every row

Inputs

Input	Notes
mmi	Integer floor from -1 through 8 inclusive. Default 3 (the docs example). 9, -2, and non-integers fail the run. The API treats this as a minimum: quakes at or above the floor.

Try this

Floor 5, not the default 3. Still one GET /quake. A higher floor keeps the list shorter than the 100-quake cap.

{
  "mmi": 5
}

Request

GET https://api.geonet.org.nz/quake?MMI=3

Accept: application/vnd.geo+json;version=2

Non-JSON, non-200, and an unexpected body fail the run. One request only.

A property-name probe on 3 Oct 2026 (PT) used that URL and Accept header. The raw body was not saved. The feature properties keys were publicID, time, depth, magnitude, locality, mmi, and quality. geometry.type was Point. The collection had 100 features.

Attribution

GeoNet content is copyright Earth Sciences New Zealand and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/). We acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet programme and its sponsors NHC, Earth Sciences NZ, LINZ, NEMA and MBIE for providing data/images used in this study.

Notes

• Research's MVP one-liner and the compliance field list included point coordinates. The build-task allowlist does not. The task allowlist wins, so coordinates are omitted.
• Compliance's emit list did not name source. The task allowlist includes the source URL, so each row has source.
• quality=deleted is matched after trim, exact token deleted.

Known limits

• One endpoint only: GET /quake on api.geonet.org.nz.
• The 100-quake / 365-day cap is the GeoNet API's cap, not a page this Actor can extend.
• No logos. No felt-report fields. No intensity grids. No network metadata. No news.