GovBot Earthquakes & Landslides

Read-only access to U.S. Geological Survey records of past earthquakes and mapped landslides: earthquakes within a radius of a location, earthquake counts and the largest earthquakes for a U.S. state or a radius, details of one earthquake, significant earthquakes in a period, and landslides recorded near a location. No account or sign-in is required.

Sources

• U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), read from the USGS FDSN event web service, with the ShakeMap and Did You Feel It? summaries published with each event.
• U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Landslide Inventory: Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0 (February 2025), a compilation of state, federal and other inventories, read from the USGS feature services.
• U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb state boundaries, used to assign epicenters to a state.

Each result states the publishing agency, service, query period and retrieval time. Records are read live and held for up to ten minutes to limit repeat requests.

Available operations

• Earthquakes within a radius of a latitude and longitude, by magnitude and date range.
• Earthquake counts by magnitude band and decade, and the largest earthquakes, for a state or a radius.
• Details of one earthquake by USGS event id, including ShakeMap and Did You Feel It? summaries as published.
• Significant earthquakes in a period, worldwide or in a state.
• Landslides recorded near a latitude and longitude, with type, date, confidence class and contributing inventory.

The MCP endpoint is https://earthquakes.govbot.ai/mcp.

Scope and support

These are catalog records of past events. They are not a forecast or prediction, a building-safety, engineering, geotechnical or insurance determination, or an alerting or warning source. Catalog completeness varies by magnitude, region and era, and older and smaller earthquakes are under-recorded. The landslide inventory compiles existing inventories of differing scope and date; absence of a record does not establish absence of landslides. GovBot is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Census Bureau or any government agency.

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