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": 19,
"data": [
{
"depth_km": 42,
"id": "us6000t8ec",
"latitude": 5.2392,
"longitude": 125.1965,
"magnitude": 6.5,
"place": "34 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippines",
"time": 1782473681498,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t8ec"
},
{
"depth_km": 50.923,
"id": "us6000t7zq",
"latitude": 40.2912,
"longitude": 142.0981,
"magnitude": 6.9,
"place": "30 km ENE of Kuji, Japan",
"time": 1782340214931,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zq"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us6000t7zp",
"latitude": 10.4351,
"longitude": -68.4716,
"magnitude": 7.5,
"place": "28 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela",
"time": 1782338711566,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zp"
},
{
"depth_km": 20.294,
"id": "us6000t7zc",
"latitude": 10.436,
"longitude": -68.5277,
"magnitude": 7.2,
"place": "23 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela",
"time": 1782338673389,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t7zc"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us7000sui3",
"latitude": 52.7943,
"longitude": 160.5652,
"magnitude": 6.6,
"place": "133 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia",
"time": 1781851951597,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000sui3"
},
{
"depth_km": 28.383,
"id": "us7000sui2",
"latitude": 52.69,
"longitude": 160.8644,
"magnitude": 6,
"place": "156 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia",
"time": 1781851891085,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000sui2"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us7000stti",
"latitude": -0.5145,
"longitude": -20.0479,
"magnitude": 6.6,
"place": "central Mid-Atlantic Ridge",
"time": 1781722618159,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000stti"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us7000stbz",
"latitude": 37.8888,
"longitude": 95.4028,
"magnitude": 6.3,
"place": "260 km SSE of Dunhuang, China",
"time": 1781600815226,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000stbz"
},
{
"depth_km": 10,
"id": "us7000st95",
"latitude": -1.1173,
"longitude": 120.199,
"magnitude": 6.7,
"place": "43 km ESE of Palu, Indonesia",
"time": 1781580464418,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000st95"
},
{
"depth_km": 111.922,
"id": "us7000st1c",
"latitude": 6.193,
"longitude": 126.7611,
"magnitude": 6.2,
"place": "67 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines",
"time": 1781515118846,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000st1c"
},
{
"depth_km": 6.209,
"id": "us7000srxn",
"latitude": -49.7494,
"longitude": 164.0645,
"magnitude": 6,
"place": "Auckland Islands, New Zealand region",
"time": 1781052259738,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srxn"
},
{
"depth_km": 26,
"id": "us7000srjx",
"latitude": 22.8137,
"longitude": -85.1539,
"magnitude": 6.1,
"place": "106 km WNW of Mantua, Cuba",
"time": 1780941627577,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srjx"
},
{
"depth_km": 75.065,
"id": "us7000srcg",
"latitude": 5.4747,
"longitude": 125.2173,
"magnitude": 6.5,
"place": "18 km SW of Balangonan, Philippines",
"time": 1780880112546,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srcg"
},
{
"depth_km": 42.386,
"id": "us7000src3",
"latitude": 5.6499,
"longitude": 125.2446,
"magnitude": 6,
"place": "6 km SW of Pangyan, Philippines",
"time": 1780876154463,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000src3"
},
{
"depth_km": 48.482,
"id": "us7000srbe",
"latitude": 5.5129,
"longitude": 125.3703,
"magnitude": 6.1,
"place": "6 km SSE of Balangonan, Philippines",
"time": 1780876087839,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srbe"
},
{
"depth_km": 57.226,
"id": "us7000srb1",
"latitude": 5.6171,
"longitude": 125.0472,
"magnitude": 7.8,
"place": "24 km SW of Kablalan, Philippines",
"time": 1780875461981,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000srb1"
},
{
"depth_km": 35,
"id": "us7000sr7l",
"latitude": 49.8993,
"longitude": 157.3799,
"magnitude": 6.1,
"place": "124 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia",
"time": 1780828918596,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000sr7l"
},
{
"depth_km": 243,
"id": "us7000spxm",
"latitude": 39.2548,
"longitude": 15.7869,
"magnitude": 6.2,
"place": "23 km WSW of San Lucido, Italy",
"time": 1780351956092,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000spxm"
},
{
"depth_km": 25,
"id": "us7000spqc",
"latitude": -32.8292,
"longitude": -71.8897,
"magnitude": 6,
"place": "33 km NW of Valparaíso, Chile",
"time": 1780263257953,
"tsunami": false,
"type": "earthquake",
"url": "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000spqc"
}
],
"success": true
}