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Iceland Recent Earthquakes

GET /iceland/quakes/recent

Recent earthquakes inside Iceland's bounding box (lat 63-67, lon -25 to -13) via USGS FDSN. Defaults: last 30 days, M ≥ 2.0.

See it visualized
✨ Iceland Earthquakes

Parameters

start_date optional

YYYY-MM-DD

min_magnitude optional default: 2.0

Minimum magnitude

Example Requests

Basic usage
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/iceland/quakes/recent

Live Response 

{
  "data": {
    "features": [
      {
        "geometry": {
          "coordinates": [
            -17.7103,
            64.7107,
            10
          ],
          "type": "Point"
        },
        "id": "us6000tgaw",
        "properties": {
          "alert": "green",
          "cdi": 4.3,
          "code": "6000tgaw",
          "detail": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?eventid=us6000tgaw&format=geojson",
          "dmin": 1.553,
          "felt": 1,
          "gap": 77,
          "ids": ",us6000tgaw,usauto6000tgaw,",
          "mag": 5.4,
          "magType": "mww",
          "mmi": 7.661,
          "net": "us",
          "nst": 89,
          "place": "109 km S of Akureyri, Iceland",
          "rms": 0.76,
          "sig": 449,
          "sources": ",us,usauto,",
          "status": "reviewed",
          "time": 1785216999419,
          "title": "M 5.4 - 109 km S of Akureyri, Iceland",
          "tsunami": 0,
          "type": "earthquake",
          "types": ",dyfi,ground-failure,internal-moment-tensor,losspager,origin,phase-data,shakemap,",
          "tz": null,
          "updated": 1785496147543,
          "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tgaw"
        },
        "type": "Feature"
      }
    ],
    "metadata": {
      "api": "2.7.0",
      "count": 1,
      "generated": 1786521008000,
      "status": 200,
      "title": "USGS Earthquakes",
      "url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&minlatitude=63&maxlatitude=67&minlongitude=-25&maxlongitude=-13&starttime=2026-07-13&minmagnitude=2.0&orderby=time"
    },
    "type": "FeatureCollection"
  },
  "success": true
}
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