# Paylyte Recent Earthquakes Feed

> Paylyte Recent Earthquakes Feed is a paid API for AI agents from api.paylyte.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Returns a list of recent significant earthquakes from the U.S. Geological Survey, including time, magnitude, and event ID for each quake.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.paylyte.ai/v1/data/quakes/recent?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/paylyte-recent-earthquakes-feed-960ceb79
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MfiKqTGaaBS98jFojTzaT

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 paylyte-recent-earthquakes-feed-960ceb79
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest significant earthquake data from USGS — I want to see what earthquakes have happened recently, with their magnitudes, times, and event IDs?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, structured access to recent USGS significant earthquake data without building your own USGS scraper or managing API keys. Particularly useful for agents that need real-time seismic awareness, disaster monitoring, or data pipelines that ingest earthquake events by magnitude and event ID.

## Known failure modes

- USGS upstream outage may result in stale or unavailable data
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.02 per-call fee
- Rate limiting if called too frequently
- Empty quakes array if no significant events have occurred in the recent window

## How this service works

Recent significant earthquakes from the U.S. Geological Survey, with time, magnitude, and event ID.

## Output

Returns a structured object containing an array of recent significant earthquake events, each with a USGS event ID, magnitude, and occurrence time. Also includes metadata such as the source URL, retrieval timestamp (retrievedAtUtc), as_of date, product/tier label, and an optional note about the data.

## 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",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "product",
      "tier",
      "quakes",
      "sourceUrl",
      "retrievedAtUtc",
      "as_of",
      "note"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "note": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "tier": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "as_of": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "quakes": {
       "type": "array"
      },
      "product": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "sourceUrl": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "retrievedAtUtc": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/paylyte-recent-earthquakes-feed-960ceb79/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.paylyte.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.paylyte.ai/llms.txt)