Earthquake MCP server

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by cyanheads·io.github.cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server·v0.5.1·1 stars

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Search USGS and EMSC seismic data — real-time feeds, event queries, and earthquake counts.

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How Earthquake compares

Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score: 93/100; higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers
Uptime: 100%; of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
Response time: 219 ms; faster than 65% of 2,238 Web search servers
GitHub stars: 1; more than 55% of 1,786 Web search servers
Downloads a week: 580; more than 87% of 827 Web search servers with a package

Release history: 8 versions in the registry since 2026-09-13, latest 2026-11-04, typically one every 7 days.

Install Earthquake in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http earthquake-mcp-server https://earthquake.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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What the publisher says

From the Earthquake repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

@cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server Search USGS and EMSC seismic data — real-time feeds, event queries, and earthquake counts via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 4 Tools • 2 Resources

Public Hosted Server: https://earthquake.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Overview

Seismic data from USGS ComCat and the EMSC SeismicPortal. Fetch real-time earthquake feeds, search and count seismic events by time, magnitude, depth, and location, and pull full analysis detail for a single event. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.

Tools

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Capability reference

earthquakegetfeed tool

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

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Earthquake: common questions

Is Earthquake MCP server safe?: Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Earthquake safety report
How do I install Earthquake?: It runs remotely at earthquake.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does Earthquake need an API key?: No secret keys are declared. It reads 12 settings from the environment.
Is Earthquake maintained?: The last commit was 38 days ago (2026-09-26). The latest release is v0.5.1.
Is Earthquake up?: 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
What can I use instead of Earthquake?: Servers from other publishers that do the same job: AIHOT MCP server and HasData Google Scholar MCP server.
How does Earthquake compare with other Web search MCP servers?: safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 219 ms (faster than 65% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.

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Rating: —
Safety grade: A · 93/100
Stars: 1
Downloads/wk: 580
Price: Free
Licence: Apache-2.0
Transport: Remote · mixed
Uptime: 100% · 28/28 checks
Version: 0.5.1
Category: Web search
Last release: 2026-09-26

Credentials it needs

MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').
USGS_BASE_URLUSGS API base URL. Override for testing or mirroring.
EMSC_BASE_URLEMSC API base URL. Override for testing or mirroring.
DEFAULT_LIMITEvents earthquake_search_events returns when a call omits limit (1-1000).
REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MSPer-attempt HTTP timeout in milliseconds (1000-120000). Every feed, search, count, and event call also runs under one 50-second total deadline across its requests and retries.
EARTHQUAKE_CLAMP_LIMITSClamp a search or feed limit above 1000 to 1000 with a notice. Set false to advertise and enforce a maximum of 1000 instead.
MCP_HTTP_HOSTThe hostname for the HTTP server.
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPESelects the HTTP transport.
MCP_HTTP_PORTThe port to run the HTTP server on.
MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATHThe endpoint path for the MCP server.
MCP_AUTH_MODEAuthentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.
MCP_LOG_LEVELSets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').

Endpoint

https://earthquake.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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