This HTTP web service implements the FDSN WS-EVENT specification and provides access to the EMSC event catalogue. Event information can include all origins and all arrivals if requested. Output formats can be Quakeml, json or text (csv). A full description of the data products and the specifications of the web service are in this document.

This webpage will help you to learn to construct request urls for use in shell scripts (for example with curl or wget) or any programming language that provides http client connections.

The data provided by this service is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For further information, see our terms and conditions. This service is also integrated into the EPOS platform.

Automatically generated documentation can be found at docs or redoc. Tutorials are also available on the EMSC github account for use cases (python/shell/notebook) or in the form of Hands-on-Sessions (using python).

The API is described using openapi.json based on the OpenAPI specification. Other (older) frameworks can automatically generate bindings from a WADL description file that is available as application.wadl.

Group	Parameter	Abbrevation	Value	Default	Minimum	Maximum	Type	Units
time constraints
	starttime	start		[Any]	[Any valid time]	[Any valid time]	Time	UTC
	endtime	end		[Any]	[Any valid time]	[Any valid time]	Time	UTC
geographics constraints
	box area constraints
	minlatitude	minlat		-90.0	-90.0	90.0	float	degrees
	maxlatitude	maxlat		90.0	-90.0	90.0	float	degrees
	minlongitude	minlon		-180.0	-360.0	360.0	float	degrees
	maxlongitude	maxlon		180.0	-360.0	360.0	float	degrees
	circle constraints
	latitude	lat		0.0	-90.0	90.0	float	degrees
	longitude	lon		0.0	-180.0	180.0	float	degrees
	minradius			0.0	0.0	180.0	float	degrees
	maxradius			180.0	0.0	180.0	float	degrees
output control
	format			xml	xml, text, json		string
	nodata			xml	204 or 404		string
other parameters
	mindepth			[Any]	[Any]	[ANY]	float	kilometers
	maxdepth			[Any]	[Any]	[ANY]	float	kilometers
	minmagnitude	minmag		[Any]	[Any]	[ANY]	float
	maxmagnitude	maxmag		[Any]	[Any]	[ANY]	float
	magnitudetype	magtype		[Any]			string
	includeallorigins			FALSE			boolean
	includearrivals			FALSE			boolean
	eventid   (seismicportal id)			[Any]			string
	evid   (EMSC website id)			[Any]			string
	limit			20000	1		integer
	offset			1	1		integer
	orderby			time	time, time-asc, magnitude, magnitude-asc		integer
	contributor			[Any]			string
	catalog			[Any]	EMSC-RTS, EMSC-EMB		string
	updatedafter						time	UTC

Generated URL : {{serverName}}{{baseFDSNUrl}}?{{params}}

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