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": 4,
"data": [
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us6000txpi",
"latitude": -21.2982,
"longitude": 168.61,
"magnitude": 6.6,
"place": "80 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia",
"time": 1790371383309,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000txpi"
},
{
"depth_km": 104.329,
"id": "us7000tiqc",
"latitude": -5.9021,
"longitude": 146.0922,
"magnitude": 6.4,
"place": "49 km NNE of Kainantu, Papua New Guinea",
"time": 1789895855624,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000tiqc"
},
{
"depth_km": 98,
"id": "us7000ti1p",
"latitude": 52.9564,
"longitude": -171.5033,
"magnitude": 6.5,
"place": "177 km W of Nikolski, Alaska",
"time": 1789654792472,
"tsunami": true,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ti1p"
},
{
"depth_km": 372,
"id": "us7000tgrk",
"latitude": -4.9832,
"longitude": 106.8742,
"magnitude": 6.5,
"place": "126 km NNE of Teluknaga, Indonesia",
"time": 1789161835907,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000tgrk"
}
],
"success": true
}