Earthquake Monitor tracks seismic activity worldwide in real time and lets you search historical earthquake data by location, magnitude, and date. Whether you're monitoring a specific region or just want to know what's shaking right now, the data updates continuously from authoritative sources.
It covers everything from micro-tremors to major events, with tsunami alerts, felt reports, and severity levels included. You can narrow results to any area by providing coordinates and a search radius — useful for safety monitoring, research, or just staying informed about activity near family and friends.
What you can do
- recent — get current earthquake activity filtered by time period (last hour, day, week, or month) and minimum magnitude
- search — find earthquakes in a specific geographic area by coordinates and radius, with date range and magnitude filters
Who it's for
Researchers, journalists, emergency management professionals, and anyone who lives in or monitors seismically active regions. Also useful for travel planning and general situational awareness.
How to use it
- For current global activity, call recent with a time period and magnitude threshold — "significant" returns newsworthy events, "4.5" returns events people can feel.
- For location-specific history, call search with latitude, longitude, and a radius in kilometres.
- Save your default coordinates as credentials so location-based queries work without specifying them each time.
Getting started
Call recent with period "week" and min_magnitude "significant" for a quick overview of recent major events worldwide.
