EarthquakeMetadata

Metadata about the earthquake query response.

Federal GovernmentGeologicalEarth ScienceNatural ResourcesEarthquakeWaterHydrology

Properties

Name	Type	Description
generated	integer	Unix timestamp (milliseconds) when the response was generated.
url	string	URL used to generate this response.
title	string	Title for this result set.
status	integer	HTTP status code.
api	string	API version string.
count	integer	Number of events returned.
limit	integer	Maximum events requested.
offset	integer	Starting offset in the result set.

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/u-s-geological-survey/refs/heads/main/json-schema/usgs-earthquake-api-earthquake-metadata-schema.json",
  "title": "EarthquakeMetadata",
  "description": "Metadata about the earthquake query response.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "generated": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Unix timestamp (milliseconds) when the response was generated.",
      "example": 1743897600000
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "URL used to generate this response.",
      "example": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&limit=10"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Title for this result set.",
      "example": "USGS Earthquakes"
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "HTTP status code.",
      "example": 200
    },
    "api": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "API version string.",
      "example": "1.14.1"
    },
    "count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Number of events returned.",
      "example": 47
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Maximum events requested.",
      "example": 100
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Starting offset in the result set.",
      "example": 1
    }
  }
}

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