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Significant Earthquakes

GET /earthquakes/significant

Get only the most significant recent earthquakes (magnitude 6.0 and above) from USGS. These are the events that can cause major damage and are felt across wide areas. Returns location, magnitude, depth, and time. Useful for disaster response dashboards, news apps covering natural disasters, and global risk assessment tools that focus on high-impact seismic events.

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Example Requests

Basic usage
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/earthquakes/significant

Live Response

{
  "count": 20,
  "data": [
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us6000t9sj",
      "latitude": 25.9501,
      "longitude": 125.7941,
      "magnitude": 6.1,
      "place": "136 km NNE of Hirara, Japan",
      "time": 1783051488066,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t9sj"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 120.932,
      "id": "us6000t9r5",
      "latitude": 1.8205,
      "longitude": 127.4916,
      "magnitude": 6.2,
      "place": "58 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia",
      "time": 1783045888846,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t9r5"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 43.568,
      "id": "us6000t9ej",
      "latitude": 40.1637,
      "longitude": 142.3927,
      "magnitude": 6,
      "place": "49 km E of Noda, Japan",
      "time": 1782907709986,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t9ej"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us6000t99j",
      "latitude": 24.8239,
      "longitude": -108.9285,
      "magnitude": 6,
      "place": "75 km SSW of El Progreso, Mexico",
      "time": 1782848740116,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t99j"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 199,
      "id": "us6000t8pa",
      "latitude": 36.4731,
      "longitude": 70.7644,
      "magnitude": 6.1,
      "place": "43 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan",
      "time": 1782567292534,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t8pa"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 42,
      "id": "us6000t8ec",
      "latitude": 5.2392,
      "longitude": 125.1965,
      "magnitude": 6.5,
      "place": "34 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippines",
      "time": 1782473681498,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t8ec"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 34,
      "id": "us6000t7zq",
      "latitude": 40.2505,
      "longitude": 142.1507,
      "magnitude": 6.9,
      "place": "32 km ENE of Noda, Japan",
      "time": 1782340212953,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zq"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us6000t7zp",
      "latitude": 10.5086,
      "longitude": -68.5036,
      "magnitude": 7.5,
      "place": "20 km ESE of Yumare, Venezuela",
      "time": 1782338711743,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zp"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 27.588,
      "id": "us6000t7zc",
      "latitude": 10.4085,
      "longitude": -68.5571,
      "magnitude": 7.2,
      "place": "21 km ENE of San Felipe, Venezuela",
      "time": 1782338674363,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zc"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us7000sui3",
      "latitude": 52.7943,
      "longitude": 160.5652,
      "magnitude": 6.6,
      "place": "133 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia",
      "time": 1781851951597,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000sui3"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 28.383,
      "id": "us7000sui2",
      "latitude": 52.69,
      "longitude": 160.8644,
      "magnitude": 6,
      "place": "156 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia",
      "time": 1781851891085,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000sui2"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us7000stti",
      "latitude": -0.5458,
      "longitude": -20.0163,
      "magnitude": 6.6,
      "place": "central Mid-Atlantic Ridge",
      "time": 1781722618028,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000stti"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us7000stbz",
      "latitude": 37.8888,
      "longitude": 95.4028,
      "magnitude": 6.3,
      "place": "260 km SSE of Dunhuang, China",
      "time": 1781600815226,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000stbz"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 10,
      "id": "us7000st95",
      "latitude": -1.1173,
      "longitude": 120.199,
      "magnitude": 6.7,
      "place": "43 km ESE of Palu, Indonesia",
      "time": 1781580464418,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000st95"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 111.922,
      "id": "us7000st1c",
      "latitude": 6.193,
      "longitude": 126.7611,
      "magnitude": 6.2,
      "place": "67 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines",
      "time": 1781515118846,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000st1c"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 2.608,
      "id": "us7000srxn",
      "latitude": -49.7125,
      "longitude": 164.0611,
      "magnitude": 6,
      "place": "Auckland Islands, New Zealand region",
      "time": 1781052259256,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srxn"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 26,
      "id": "us7000srjx",
      "latitude": 22.8015,
      "longitude": -85.1384,
      "magnitude": 6.1,
      "place": "104 km WNW of Mantua, Cuba",
      "time": 1780941627551,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srjx"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 75.065,
      "id": "us7000srcg",
      "latitude": 5.4747,
      "longitude": 125.2173,
      "magnitude": 6.5,
      "place": "18 km SW of Balangonan, Philippines",
      "time": 1780880112546,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srcg"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 44.674,
      "id": "us7000srbe",
      "latitude": 5.4579,
      "longitude": 125.2171,
      "magnitude": 6.1,
      "place": "19 km SW of Balangonan, Philippines",
      "time": 1780876087276,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srbe"
    },
    {
      "depth_km": 56.991,
      "id": "us7000srb1",
      "latitude": 5.5994,
      "longitude": 125.056,
      "magnitude": 7.8,
      "place": "25 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines",
      "time": 1780875461970,
      "tsunami": false,
      "type": "earthquake",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srb1"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}