# Foundry USGS Earthquake Feed

> Foundry USGS Earthquake Feed is a paid API for AI agents from minty-sprout.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Returns recent earthquake data from USGS — magnitude, location, time, and depth — for the past day, past week, or significant events.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://minty-sprout.onrender.com/v1/earthquakes?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/foundry-usgs-earthquake-feed-d9aee1d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nCD-kra-Paq9mTrskaNRS

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability foundry-usgs-earthquake-feed-d9aee1d6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest USGS earthquake data for today — I want to see all the magnitude 2.5+ earthquakes from the past day, with their locations and depths?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time or near-real-time earthquake event data sourced directly from USGS without building your own USGS API integration. Ideal for natural disaster monitoring, seismic awareness dashboards, travel safety checks, or any agent workflow that needs structured earthquake data on demand. Prefer this over scraping USGS directly or building a custom integration, especially in pay-per-call agentic contexts.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid input value (not 'day', 'week', or 'significant') returns an error
- USGS upstream API unavailability causes fetch failure
- Empty result set if no qualifying earthquakes occurred in the period
- Network timeout if USGS data feed is slow to respond

## How this service works

Recent earthquakes from USGS: magnitude, place, time and depth. Input: 'day', 'week' or 'significant'.

## Output

A JSON object containing the feed name, total earthquake count, the data source attribution (USGS public domain), and an array of earthquake events each with: location description (place), depth in kilometers, UTC time, magnitude, and a direct USGS event page URL.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 8000,
   "description": "'day' (M2.5+), 'week' (M4.5+) or 'significant'"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "feed": "2.5_day",
  "count": 41,
  "source": "USGS (public domain)",
  "earthquakes": [
   {
    "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75460612",
    "place": "63 km W of Petrolia, CA",
    "depth_km": -0.180000007152557,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-31T23:21+00:00",
    "magnitude": 2.7
   },
   {
    "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/aka2026vplgct",
    "place": "10 km WSW of Hope, Alaska",
    "depth_km": 22.7,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-31T23:17+00:00",
    "magnitude": 3.1
   },
   {
    "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000tuky",
    "place": "200 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu",
    "depth_km": 10,
    "time_utc": "2026-10-31T22:42+00:00",
    "magnitude": 5.2
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

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