Department of the Interior

Department of the Interior Events API

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: National Park Service (NPS) Data Alerts Events API
  description: The National Park Service Data API provides programmatic access to information about U.S. national parks - park overviews, alerts, events, visitor centers, campgrounds, things to do, news releases, articles, people, places, and more. The API is REST-based and returns JSON.
  version: '1'
  contact:
    name: NPS Developer Resources
    url: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/
  license:
    name: Public Domain
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
servers:
- url: https://developer.nps.gov/api/v1
  description: Production
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Events
  description: Park events
paths:
  /events:
    get:
      tags:
      - Events
      summary: List park events
      operationId: listEvents
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/parkCode'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/stateCode'
      - name: dateStart
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date
      - name: dateEnd
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Events
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenericResponse'
  /query:
    get:
      tags:
      - Events
      summary: Query earthquake events
      operationId: queryEvents
      parameters:
      - name: format
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - geojson
          - csv
          - kml
          - quakeml
          - text
          - xml
          default: geojson
      - name: starttime
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: endtime
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: minlatitude
        in: query
        schema:
          type: number
          minimum: -90
          maximum: 90
      - name: maxlatitude
        in: query
        schema:
          type: number
          minimum: -90
          maximum: 90
      - name: minlongitude
        in: query
        schema:
          type: number
          minimum: -360
          maximum: 360
      - name: maxlongitude
        in: query
        schema:
          type: number
          minimum: -360
          maximum: 360
      - name: minmagnitude
        in: query
        schema:
          type: number
      - name: maxmagnitude
        in: query
        schema:
          type: number
      - name: orderby
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - time
          - time-asc
          - magnitude
          - magnitude-asc
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 20000
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Earthquake FeatureCollection
          content:
            application/geo+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EarthquakeFeatureCollection'
components:
  parameters:
    parkCode:
      name: parkCode
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Comma-separated four-letter park codes (e.g. yose,grca)
    stateCode:
      name: stateCode
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
        pattern: ^[A-Z]{2}(,[A-Z]{2})*$
  schemas:
    EarthquakeFeatureCollection:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          const: FeatureCollection
        metadata:
          type: object
          properties:
            generated:
              type: integer
            url:
              type: string
            title:
              type: string
            api:
              type: string
            count:
              type: integer
            status:
              type: integer
        features:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/EarthquakeFeature'
        bbox:
          type: array
          items:
            type: number
    EarthquakeFeature:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          const: Feature
        id:
          type: string
        properties:
          type: object
          properties:
            mag:
              type: number
            place:
              type: string
            time:
              type: integer
            updated:
              type: integer
            tz:
              type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
            url:
              type: string
            detail:
              type: string
            felt:
              type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
            cdi:
              type:
              - number
              - 'null'
            mmi:
              type:
              - number
              - 'null'
            alert:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
            status:
              type: string
            tsunami:
              type: integer
            sig:
              type: integer
            net:
              type: string
            code:
              type: string
            ids:
              type: string
            sources:
              type: string
            types:
              type: string
            nst:
              type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
            dmin:
              type:
              - number
              - 'null'
            rms:
              type: number
            gap:
              type:
              - number
              - 'null'
            magType:
              type: string
            type:
              type: string
            title:
              type: string
        geometry:
          type: object
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              const: Point
            coordinates:
              type: array
              items:
                type: number
              minItems: 3
              maxItems: 3
    GenericResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        total:
          type: string
        limit:
          type: string
        start:
          type: string
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: true
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
externalDocs:
  description: NPS API documentation
  url: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/developer/api-documentation.htm

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