USGS Global Earthquake Catalog — Magnitude 4.5+, 2000–2026

DatasetCSV.GZOpenEarthquakesUSGSSeismologyGeospatialTime SeriesFree

186,875 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above worldwide from January 2000 to 2026-09-05, with time, epicentre, depth, magnitude and magnitude type, network, location text and review status, from the USGS FDSN event service. One row per event, ordered by time.

Use Cases

Catastrophe and reinsurance modelling
Geospatial clustering
Event studies for regional markets

Methodology

One FDSN query per calendar year with minmagnitude=4.5, concatenated.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. USGS publishes continuously; refresh monthly.

Attribution

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program (public domain).

Schema

name	type
time	date
latitude	number
longitude	number
depth	number
mag	number
magType	string
nst	integer
gap	integer
dmin	number
rms	number
net	string
id	string
updated	date
place	string
type	string
horizontalError	number
depthError	number
magError	string
magNst	integer
status	string

Showing 20 of 22 rows

Sample Data

id	mag	net	rms	time	type	depth	place	magNst	status	magType	updated	latitude	longitude	magSource	depthError	locationSource
usp0009kjw	4.5	us	1.14	2000-01-01T01:19:26.990Z	earthquake	10	14 km SW of Dragash, Kosovo	18	reviewed	mb	2014-11-07T01:09:14.397Z	41.927	20.543	us		us
usp0009kk5	4.5	us	0.91	2000-01-01T04:30:10.370Z	earthquake	105	130 km ENE of Diego de Almagro, Chile	15	reviewed	mb	2014-11-07T01:09:14.812Z	-26.012	-68.803	us		us
usp0009kk8	5.1	us	0.83	2000-01-01T05:24:35.290Z	earthquake	54.3	29 km SSE of Rust?q, Afghanistan		reviewed	mwc	2022-04-29T18:27:48.504Z	36.874	69.947	hrv	12.7	us
usp0009kkb	6	us	1.05	2000-01-01T05:58:19.780Z	earthquake	10	west of Macquarie Island		reviewed	mwc	2022-04-29T18:27:54.065Z	-60.722	153.67	hrv		us
usp0009kkh	4.5	us	1.11	2000-01-01T07:50:00.390Z	earthquake	100.7	0 km SE of Hinatuan, Philippines	1	reviewed	mb	2014-11-07T01:09:15.190Z	8.37	126.336	us	7.1	us

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#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
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      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
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Details

Date Range2000-01-01 — 2026-09-05

Rows186,875

Size8.5 MB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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