# Global Hazards: Active Volcanoes

> Global Hazards: Active Volcanoes is a paid API for AI agents from global-hazards.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Returns currently active volcanoes worldwide with activity reports from NASA EONET and GDACS, sorted by recency or proximity to a coordinate.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://global-hazards.x402tookit.com/active-volcanoes?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/global-hazards-active-volcanoes-6209b048
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nVBN6MxqWU05OSWN07sv1

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 global-hazards-active-volcanoes-6209b048
```

Example prompt: Show me the 10 active volcanoes nearest to Manila (latitude 14.6, longitude 121.0) within 3000 km, with their latest activity reports and any GDACS alert levels.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a curated, ready-to-use list of currently active volcanoes aggregated from NASA EONET and GDACS — especially when proximity filtering by coordinates is needed. Prefer this over raw EONET or GDACS APIs when you want normalized, pre-processed volcanic activity data with alert levels in a single call. Best for travel safety checks, disaster monitoring dashboards, or geospatial hazard assessments near a specific location.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid lat/lon combination (lat without lon or vice versa) may return an error or default to global list
- radiusKm out of range (below 10 or above 20000) may be rejected
- limit outside 1–50 range may be clamped or rejected
- No volcanoes found within specified radius returns empty volcanoes array
- Upstream NASA EONET or GDACS service unavailable may trigger degraded mode with partial or cached data
- Network timeout from upstream data sources may result in incomplete results with degraded flag set

## How this service works

Volcanoes with current activity reports worldwide (NASA EONET, GDACS alerts), newest first or nearest to a point.

## Output

Returns an array of active volcano objects each containing name, country, coordinates, data sources, latest activity report text, report age in days, and GDACS alert level. Also includes a summary, total count of listed volcanoes, number with GDACS alerts, data freshness timestamp, source attribution, and a disclaimer. Optionally degraded-mode flag and list of unchecked sources if data retrieval was partial.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Optional latitude (give with lon) to sort by distance"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Optional longitude (give with lat)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Volcanoes returned, 1 to 50 (default 25)"
      },
      "radiusKm": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "With lat/lon: keep volcanoes within 10 to 20000 km (default 2000)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "sourceUrl": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "volcanoes": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "url": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "name": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "country": {
          "type": [
           "null",
           "string"
          ]
         },
         "sources": {
          "type": [
           "array",
           "null"
          ],
          "items": {
           "type": "string"
          }
         },
         "lat
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/global-hazards-active-volcanoes-6209b048/health.json
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- [Other services from global-hazards.x402tookit.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/global-hazards.x402tookit.com/llms.txt)