Department of the Interior · Example Payload

Earthquake Example

Federal GovernmentPublic LandsNatural ResourcesGeospatial

Earthquake Example is an example object payload from Department of the Interior, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

typemetadatafeaturesbbox

Example Payload

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{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": 1745803200000,
    "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&starttime=2026-04-27&minmagnitude=5.0",
    "title": "USGS Earthquakes - Magnitude 5.0+",
    "api": "1.14.1",
    "count": 1,
    "status": 200
  },
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "id": "us6000example",
      "properties": {
        "mag": 5.4,
        "place": "112 km SW of Example Island, Country X",
        "time": 1745796543000,
        "updated": 1745800000000,
        "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000example",
        "detail": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?eventid=us6000example&format=geojson",
        "alert": "green",
        "status": "reviewed",
        "tsunami": 0,
        "sig": 449,
        "magType": "mb",
        "type": "earthquake",
        "title": "M 5.4 - 112 km SW of Example Island"
      },
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Point",
        "coordinates": [142.123, -10.456, 35.0]
      }
    }
  ],
  "bbox": [142.123, -10.456, 35.0, 142.123, -10.456, 35.0]
}