get_live_earthquake_events
Get Live Earthquake Events
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Fetch recent preliminary USGS earthquake events in the shared data-result shape. Use get_earthquake_events for canonical enriched history.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| request_id | string | no | Optional caller-supplied request id for tracing. |
| hours | integer | no | Recent lookback window in hours. Ignored when start_time is provided. |
| start_time | string | no | Optional inclusive ISO-8601 start datetime. |
| end_time | string | no | Optional exclusive-ish ISO-8601 end datetime. Defaults to now. |
| min_magnitude | number | no | Minimum earthquake magnitude. Defaults to 2.5. |
| limit | integer | no | Maximum live rows to return. |
| orderby | string | no | USGS result ordering. |
| min_latitude | number | no | Optional bounding box minimum latitude. |
| max_latitude | number | no | Optional bounding box maximum latitude. |
| min_longitude | number | no | Optional bounding box minimum longitude. |
| max_longitude | number | no | Optional bounding box maximum longitude. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"request_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional caller-supplied request id for tracing."
},
"hours": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 168,
"description": "Recent lookback window in hours. Ignored when start_time is provided."
},
"start_time": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional inclusive ISO-8601 start datetime."
},
"end_time": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional exclusive-ish ISO-8601 end datetime. Defaults to now."
},
"min_magnitude": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Minimum earthquake magnitude. Defaults to 2.5."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 500,
"description": "Maximum live rows to return."
},
"orderby": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"time",
"time-asc",
"magnitude",
"magnitude-asc"
],
"description": "USGS result ordering."
},
"min_latitude": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Optional bounding box minimum latitude."
},
"max_latitude": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Optional bounding box maximum latitude."
},
"min_longitude": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Optional bounding box minimum longitude."
},
"max_longitude": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Optional bounding box maximum longitude."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}