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Iceland Recent Earthquakes

GET /iceland/quakes/recent

Recent earthquakes inside Iceland's bounding box (lat 63-67, lon -25 to -13) via USGS FDSN. Defaults: last 30 days, M ≥ 2.0.

See it visualized
✨ Iceland Earthquakes

Parameters

start_date optional

YYYY-MM-DD

min_magnitude optional default: 2.0

Minimum magnitude

Example Requests

Basic usage
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/iceland/quakes/recent

Live Response 

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          "coordinates": [
            -17.7867,
            64.5063,
            10
          ],
          "type": "Point"
        },
        "id": "us7000suf9",
        "properties": {
          "alert": null,
          "cdi": null,
          "code": "7000suf9",
          "detail": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?eventid=us7000suf9&format=geojson",
          "dmin": 1.544,
          "felt": null,
          "gap": 142,
          "ids": ",us7000suf9,",
          "mag": 4.1,
          "magType": "mb",
          "mmi": null,
          "net": "us",
          "nst": 23,
          "place": "127 km WNW of Höfn, Iceland",
          "rms": 0.74,
          "sig": 259,
          "sources": ",us,",
          "status": "reviewed",
          "time": 1781389826652,
          "title": "M 4.1 - 127 km WNW of Höfn, Iceland",
          "tsunami": 0,
          "type": "earthquake",
          "types": ",origin,phase-data,",
          "tz": null,
          "updated": 1782778547040,
          "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000suf9"
        },
        "type": "Feature"
      },
      {
        "geometry": {
          "coordinates": [
            -17.6981,
            64.6396,
            10
          ],
          "type": "Point"
        },
        "id": "us7000ssqq",
        "properties": {
          "alert": null,
          "cdi": null,
          "code": "7000ssqq",
          "detail": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?eventid=us7000ssqq&format=geojson",
          "dmin": 1.563,
          "felt": null,
          "gap": 95,
          "ids": ",us7000ssqq,",
          "mag": 4.8,
          "magType": "mww",
          "mmi": null,
          "net": "us",
          "nst": 82,
          "place": "117 km S of Akureyri, Iceland",
          "rms": 0.55,
          "sig": 354,
          "sources": ",us,",
          "status": "reviewed",
          "time": 1781381653748,
          "title": "M 4.8 - 117 km S of Akureyri, Iceland",
          "tsunami": 0,
          "type": "earthquake",
          "types": ",moment-tensor,origin,phase-data,",
          "tz": null,
          "updated": 1782411322040,
          "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ssqq"
        },
        "type": "Feature"
      }
    ],
    "metadata": {
      "api": "2.7.0",
      "count": 2,
      "generated": 1783274910000,
      "status": 200,
      "title": "USGS Earthquakes",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&minlatitude=63&maxlatitude=67&minlongitude=-25&maxlongitude=-13&starttime=2026-06-05&minmagnitude=2.0&orderby=time"
    },
    "type": "FeatureCollection"
  },
  "success": true
}
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