# USGS Earthquake integration

> Real-time and historical seismic event data from the U.S. Geological Survey — query the global earthquake catalog and read live GeoJSON feeds.

- Authentication: noAuth

## Tools (7)

- **Count Earthquakes**: Count matching earthquakes without fetching the events themselves. Use before a large query to validate it will fit under the 20,000-result cap.
- **Get Earthquake by ID**: Look up a single earthquake event by its USGS event ID, optionally including all magnitudes, origins, phase arrivals, and superseded products.
- **Get Valid Enumerated Parameters**: Fetch the full JSON catalog of enumerated parameter values — catalogs, contributors, producttypes, eventtypes, magnitudetypes, alertlevels, and review statuses.
- **List Catalogs**: List the catalog identifiers available for filtering — pass any of these as the `catalog` parameter on /query.
- **List Contributors**: List the contributor identifiers available for filtering — pass any of these as the `contributor` parameter on /query.
- **Query Earthquakes**: Search the FDSN earthquake catalog by time, location, magnitude, depth, impact, and product. The primary historical/filtered search endpoint.
- **Real-time Summary Feed**: Read the live GeoJSON summary feeds — static files refreshed every minute that list recent earthquakes by magnitude threshold and time window.

## Related prompts

- [Facility-aware earthquake alerts to the right Slack channel](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/facility-aware-earthquake-alerts-to-the-right-slack-channel.md)
- [Daily magnitude 4.5+ earthquake log to Google Sheets](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/daily-magnitude-45-earthquake-log-to-google-sheets.md)
- [Earthquake alerts in Slack from USGS feeds](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/earthquake-alerts-in-slack-from-usgs-feeds.md)
- [Weekly seismic activity briefing in Notion](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/weekly-seismic-activity-briefing-in-notion.md)

Connect USGS Earthquake in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/usgs-earthquake