`fdsn_events`

Pack: earthscope-fdsn · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/earthscope-fdsn/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/fdsn_events for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

“What small earthquakes happened near Etna this week?” — earthquake catalogues published by REGIONAL seismological agencies over the FDSN standard: GFZ GEOFON (global rapid solutions), INGV (Italy, down to about M0.5), RESIF (France), KOERI (Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean). Complements the global catalogues — these agencies list the local magnitude-1-to-3 events that USGS and EMSC never publish. Returns event id, origin time, latitude/longitude/depth, magnitude and magnitude type, region name and event type.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`datacenter`	string	no	Which agency catalogue: “gfz” (default, global), “ingv” (Italy), “resif” (France), “koeri” (Turkey).
`starttime`	string	no	Earliest origin time, YYYY-MM-DD (default: 30 days ago).
`endtime`	string	no	Latest origin time, YYYY-MM-DD.
`min_magnitude`	number	no	Minimum magnitude.
`max_magnitude`	number	no	Maximum magnitude.
`min_depth_km`	number	no	Minimum hypocentre depth in km.
`max_depth_km`	number	no	Maximum hypocentre depth in km.
`latitude`	number	no	Centre latitude for a radial search.
`longitude`	number	no	Centre longitude for a radial search.
`max_radius_km`	number	no	Radius in km around latitude/longitude.
`min_latitude`	number	no	Bounding-box south edge.
`max_latitude`	number	no	Bounding-box north edge.
`min_longitude`	number	no	Bounding-box west edge.
`max_longitude`	number	no	Bounding-box east edge.
`limit`	number	no	Max events to return (default 50, max 500).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "datacenter": "ingv",
  "starttime": "2026-09-10",
  "min_magnitude": 2,
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/earthscope-fdsn/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"fdsn_events","arguments":{"datacenter":"ingv","starttime":"2026-09-10","min_magnitude":2,"limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('fdsn_events', {
  "datacenter": "ingv",
  "starttime": "2026-09-10",
  "min_magnitude": 2,
  "limit": 5
});

More examples

{
  "datacenter": "gfz",
  "starttime": "2026-09-01",
  "min_magnitude": 5.5,
  "limit": 20
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "earthscope-fdsn": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/earthscope-fdsn/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

fdsn_events