GET /earthquakes/significant
Get only the most significant recent earthquakes (magnitude 6.0 and above) from USGS. These are the events that can cause major damage and are felt across wide areas. Returns location, magnitude, depth, and time. Useful for disaster response dashboards, news apps covering natural disasters, and global risk assessment tools that focus on high-impact seismic events.
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/earthquakes/significant
{
"count": 10,
"data": [
{
"depth_km": 110.285,
"id": "us6000tjl2",
"latitude": 4.8436,
"longitude": -76.2422,
"magnitude": 7.4,
"place": "5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia",
"time": 1786365268125,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tjl2"
},
{
"depth_km": 226.084,
"id": "us6000ti8i",
"latitude": -33.8063,
"longitude": 179.4727,
"magnitude": 6.3,
"place": "south of the Kermadec Islands",
"time": 1785915807317,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ti8i"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us6000ti6x",
"latitude": 5.1812,
"longitude": 125.276,
"magnitude": 6.3,
"place": "32 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines",
"time": 1785903246625,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ti6x"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us6000tgb9",
"latitude": 32.6817,
"longitude": 130.7217,
"magnitude": 6.8,
"place": "The 2026 Kumamoto Region, Japan Earthquake",
"time": 1785223635512,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tgb9"
},
{
"depth_km": 15,
"id": "us7000t37a",
"latitude": -13.9559,
"longitude": 167.0409,
"magnitude": 6,
"place": "55 km W of Sola, Vanuatu",
"time": 1784929071697,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t37a"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us7000t1cc",
"latitude": 14.2039,
"longitude": -93.1385,
"magnitude": 6.4,
"place": "96 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexico",
"time": 1784301606587,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t1cc"
},
{
"depth_km": 22,
"id": "us7000t1bu",
"latitude": 14.6361,
"longitude": -92.8969,
"magnitude": 7.3,
"place": "52 km W of Puerto Madero, Mexico",
"time": 1784299720227,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t1bu"
},
{
"depth_km": 47.171,
"id": "us7000t0d0",
"latitude": 5.3206,
"longitude": 125.181,
"magnitude": 6.2,
"place": "32 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippines",
"time": 1784044179287,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t0d0"
},
{
"depth_km": 16,
"id": "us7000t01n",
"latitude": -22.7876,
"longitude": 171.5534,
"magnitude": 6.3,
"place": "southeast of the Loyalty Islands",
"time": 1783953949630,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t01n"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us7000szzy",
"latitude": -3.2114,
"longitude": 148.5991,
"magnitude": 6.4,
"place": "196 km SE of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea",
"time": 1783932807219,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000szzy"
}
],
"success": true
}