Us Geological Survey Plans Pricing
USGS APIs (earthquake catalog, water data, geomagnetic, seismic design, ScienceBase, etc.) are free public services. There is no commercial pricing. Most endpoints do not require an API key, though some use api.data.gov fronting; high-volume consumers are directed to real-time feeds and bulk downloads rather than tight API polling.
Us Geological Survey Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for US Geological Survey on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 1 plan, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Public API Access.
Tagged areas include Federal Government, Earth Science, Earthquakes, Water Data, and Geospatial.
Plans
Free public access to USGS data services. No charge, no key required for most endpoints; some federated services route through api.data.gov and inherit its 1,000 req/hr per-key default.
- Earthquake Real-Time GeoJSON Feeds
- FDSN Event Web Service (CSV / GeoJSON / QuakeML / KML / ATOM)
- Water Data REST APIs
- Geomagnetic Data Web Services
- Seismic Design Data Web Services
- ScienceBase APIs
Sources
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for plans
4 MCP tools reach this
find_plansBrowse and filter every plan in the catalog.apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/us-geological-survey-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.