# USGS Earthquake Data by Location (Suverse Proxy)

> USGS Earthquake Data by Location (Suverse Proxy) is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns USGS earthquake events near a given latitude/longitude, including magnitude, place name, time, and distance, ordered by time.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-quakes-by-region
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/usgs-earthquake-data-by-location-suverse-proxy-3a3f2e55
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5ph-Wi3n-g-sAJgjYXAp-

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 usgs-earthquake-data-by-location-suverse-proxy-3a3f2e55 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up recent USGS earthquake events within 100 km of San Francisco (37.7749° N, 122.4194° W) and show me the magnitudes, locations, and times?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, keyless access to USGS earthquake data for a specific geographic point — especially for AI agent workflows doing automated seismic risk checks, location-based safety assessments, or real-time monitoring without managing a USGS API key. It is ideal for agentic pipelines that pay per-call via x402 micropayments.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid latitude/longitude returns an error or empty result
- Radius too large may time out or return very large result sets
- USGS upstream API unavailability causes proxy to fail
- Malformed POST body (wrong bodyType or missing required fields) returns a 400-level error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request before it reaches the data layer

## How this service works

USGS earthquakes within a radius of a latitude and longitude, no key. Returns nearby events with magnitude, place, time, and distance ordering by time. For AI agents doing location specific seismic risk checks.

## Output

A list of nearby USGS earthquake events sorted by time, each containing the event magnitude, human-readable place name, UTC timestamp, and distance from the queried coordinates.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/usgs-earthquake-data-by-location-suverse-proxy-3a3f2e55/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from proxy.suverse.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/proxy.suverse.io/llms.txt)