Latest Earthquakes: Feeds & Data
In addition to web-based maps and html pages, USGS provides several alternative ways to obtain real-time earthquake lists. Earthquake information is extracted from a merged catalog of earthquakes located by the USGS and contributing networks. Earthquakes will be broadcast within a few minutes for California events, and within 30-minutes for worldwide events.
Google Earth KML
Display real-time earthquakes and plate boundaries in Google Earth (requires version 4+). To display earthquakes, download one of our earthquake KML feeds (below) and open it in Google Earth. Earthquakes refresh every 5-minutes. More Google Earth/KML Files »
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M 1+ earthquakes, past 7 days (colored by age)
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:25 UTC (159 kB)
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M 1+ earthquakes, past 7 days (colored by depth)
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:40 UTC (159 kB)
Atom, RSS, CSV Feeds
Atom Files
Contain basic information (date, location, magnitude, and depth) about each earthquake and a link to a detailed report, plus embedded links to other products like ShakeMap, Did You Feel It?, and CAP alerts. More information »
RSS Files
Contain basic information (date, location, magnitude, and depth) about each earthquake and a link to a detailed report. More information »
CSV Files
Comma separated ASCII text files containing the source network (Src), ID (Eqid), version, date, location, magnitude, depth (km) and number of reporting stations (NST) for each earthquake. These files are lightweight and best for applications that repeatedly download earthquake data.
Past Hour
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M 1+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:02 UTC
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M 0+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:02 UTC
Past Day
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M 2.5+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:03 UTC
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M 1+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:03 UTC
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M 0+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:03 UTC
Past 7 Days
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M 7+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:03 UTC
M 5+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:03 UTC
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M 2.5+ earthquakes
Updated: Mon May 02 21:44:03 UTC
Past 30 days
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Earthquake ShakeMaps
Updated: Mon May 02 19:48:04 UTC (64 kB)
CAP Alerts
To integrate CAP Alerts into your software, please contact FEMA Disaster Management Interoperability Services, which receives and distributes CAP alerts from USGS and many other agencies.
Links to Earthquake CAP Alerts are embedded in the Atom feeds. They are represented using link type "related" and content type "application/cap+xml".
Merged Catalog in XML Format
Unlike the RSS Feeds, this XML file contains all available parameters, including date, location, magnitude/magnitude type, number of stations/phases used for location, distance to first station, RMS/horizontal/vertical errors, and more. The minimum magnitude of events included in the XML merged catalog varies from region to region depending upon the density of the reporting networks.
The XML merged catalog also includes non-preferred solutions when multiple networks locate the same event. A non-preferred solution appears as a "duplicate" child element of the associated preferred solution.
XML merged catalog, past 7 days
Updated: Mon May 02 21:48:49 UTC (81 kB)
Merged Catalog in Cube Format
Cube format is a fixed-format, card-like version of the information in the merged catalog. It contains the same information provided in the XML format, except that there is no information on 'duplicate' event ids, which occur when networks other than the authoritative network submit information on the same event. The minimum magnitude of events included in the Cube catalog varies from region to region depending upon the density of the reporting networks. More information »
Cube merged catalog, past 7 days
Updated: Mon May 02 21:48:42 UTC (100 kB)
QED Post
Sends a daily message of the earthquakes located 7 days behind the current day taken from our Quick Epicenter Determinations (QED) listing. It is a preliminary publication and typically contains 10-30 events per day. More information »