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USGS Earthquakes: RSS Feed Information

RSS, which stands for “Really Simple Syndication” (sometimes called Rich Site Summary), has been adopted by news services, weblogs, and other online information services to send content to subscribers. After subscribing to an RSS feed, you will be notified when new content is available without having to visit the web site.

Typically, syndication services send out a headline/summary with a link the full story. The USGS earthquake RSS feed contains the magnitude, location, date/time, and a link to the full USGS report for each event.

How to Subscribe

It is easy to use RSS feeds. First, you need to download a free RSS viewer. Then, you copy and paste the URL of the news feed (e.g. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/eqs1day-M2.5.xml) into the viewer's “subscribe” dialogue). Example RSS viewers include:

Available RSS Feeds

  • M > 2.5 worldwide earthquakes, past day RSS 2.0

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/eqs1day-M2.5.xml

  • M > 2.5 worldwide earthquakes, past 7 days RSS 2.0

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/eqs7day-M2.5.xml

  • M > 5 worldwide earthquakes, past 7 days RSS 2.0

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/eqs7day-M5.xml

Raw XML Feed

Access the full earthquake catalog produced by Quake Data Merge, a Java-based application that eliminates duplicate and redundant information reported by different seismic networks, producing a single, authoritative earthquake catalog. This XML file contains all available parameters, including date, location, magnitude/magnitude type, number of stations/phases used for location, distance to first station, RMS/horizontal/vertical errors, and more.


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lead by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). 

 

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