US Geological Survey · Open Collection

USGS Earthquake Catalog API

5
Requests
2
Folders
1.0
Version
View on GitHub Raw JSON Federal-GovernmentEarth ScienceEarthquakesWater DataGeospatialHazardsEnvironmentOpen Collection

Overview

USGS Earthquake Catalog API is a Open Collection published by US Geological Survey on the APIs.io network, version 1.0.

The collection contains 5 requests organised into 2 folders.

Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Earth Science, Earthquakes, Water Data, and Geospatial.

Requests & Folders

Earthquakes
Metadata

Related API Specs

US Geological Survey Collections API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Continuous Values API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Daily Values API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Earthquakes API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Field Measurements API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Metadata API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Monitoring Locations API (OpenAPI) US Geological Survey Time Series Metadata API (OpenAPI)
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