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GeoNet New Zealand Hazard API

The quick quake endpoint covers possibly felt earthquakes in the New Zealand region from the last 365 days and returns at most 100, while volcano-vicinity quakes cover 60 days and volcanic alert levels are current. The wider earthquake catalogue includes instrumentally determined events since the 1930s and earlier estimates from oral and written records.

Open api.geonet.org.nz
Signal Scoredraft model
90
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
Custom · terms linked
13
Evidence
6 source links checked
20
Freshness
verified 2026-11-01
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
17

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Keyless public API access. The quick quake endpoint returns at most 100 possibly felt quakes from the last 365 days; the volcano-quake endpoint covers 60 days.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
Customterms
Licence note
GeoNet says its content is copyrighted by Earth Sciences New Zealand and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand. Its data policy makes all data and images free of charge and requests acknowledgement of the programme sponsors.
Attribution
Requested: "We acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet programme and its sponsors NHC, Earth Sciences NZ, LINZ, NEMA and MBIE for providing data/images used in this study."

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-01

  1. 01www.geonet.org.nz/data
  2. 02api.geonet.org.nz
  3. 03api.geonet.org.nz/quake?MMI=3
  4. 04api.geonet.org.nz/volcano/val
  5. 05www.geonet.org.nz/data/types/eq_catalogue
  6. 06www.geonet.org.nz/policy

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osintevent-datageospatialreal-timehistorical-datarisk

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "geonet-hazard-api"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "GeoNet New Zealand Hazard API",
  "slug": "geonet-hazard-api",
  "domain": "OSINT",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none",
  "rateLimits": "Not stated",
  "license": "Custom",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.geonet.org.nz/policy",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-01",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://www.geonet.org.nz/data",
    "https://api.geonet.org.nz",
    "https://api.geonet.org.nz/quake?MMI=3",
    "https://api.geonet.org.nz/volcano/val",
    "https://www.geonet.org.nz/data/types/eq_catalogue",
    "https://www.geonet.org.nz/policy"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "osint",
    "event-data",
    "geospatial",
    "real-time",
    "historical-data",
    "risk"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://api.geonet.org.nz"
}

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