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USGS Earthquakes MCP Server

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USGS Earthquakes is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Real-time earthquake events from the US Geological Survey

Uptime history 91 days of history
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
534 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check USGS Earthquakes every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add earthquake --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/earthquake/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.olyport.com/earthquake/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.earthquake]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/earthquake/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "earthquake": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/earthquake/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "earthquake": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/earthquake/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

earthquake
get_earthquake_detail
Get full details of a specific earthquake event by its USGS event ID. Returns comprehensive information including magnitude, location, depth, felt reports, tsunami status, and tectonic summary when available. Args: event_id: The USGS event ID (e.g. 'us7000m1xh'). Get IDs from search results.
earthquakes
get_earthquakes_near
Get earthquakes near a specific geographic location. Searches for earthquakes within a radius of the given coordinates. Useful for assessing local seismic risk or investigating felt reports. Args: latitude: Latitude of the center point (e.g. 37.7749 for San Francisco). longitude: Longitude of the center point (e.g. -122.4194 for San Francisco). radius_km: Search radius in kilometers (default 100, max 20001). min_magnitude: Minimum magnitude to include (default 1.0). days: Number of days to look back (default 30, max 365).
recent
get_recent_earthquakes
Get recent earthquakes worldwide above a minimum magnitude. Returns earthquake events from the USGS catalog sorted by time (newest first). Useful for monitoring seismic activity globally. Args: min_magnitude: Minimum magnitude to include (default 2.5). Use 4.5+ for significant quakes only. days: Number of days to look back (default 7, max 30). limit: Maximum number of earthquakes to return (default 50, max 500).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/earthquake/mcp streamable-http answering 528 ms 3 min ago

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USGS Earthquakes — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can USGS Earthquakes do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_earthquake_detail, get_earthquakes_near, get_recent_earthquakes. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is USGS Earthquakes working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 534 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect USGS Earthquakes?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does USGS Earthquakes need an API key?
No. USGS Earthquakes completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is USGS Earthquakes?
It answers our handshake in 534 ms on average, which is faster than 22% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.