`recent_quakes`

Pack: geonet-nz · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/geonet-nz/mcp

Recent New Zealand earthquakes from GeoNet (official NZ monitoring, GNS Science), filtered by minimum Modified Mercalli Intensity. MMI 3 ≈ widely felt, 5 ≈ damaging; -1 returns all located quakes. Returns magnitude, depth, locality, felt intensity, and coordinates, newest first. Keyless.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`min_mmi`	number	no	Minimum Modified Mercalli Intensity, -1 to 8 (default 3). -1 = all quakes, 3 ≈ widely felt, 5 ≈ damaging. Out-of-range values are clamped.
`limit`	number	no	Max quakes to return (default 15, max 50).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "min_mmi": 3,
  "limit": 15
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/geonet-nz/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"recent_quakes","arguments":{"min_mmi":3,"limit":15}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

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

const result = await pipeworx.call('recent_quakes', {
  "min_mmi": 3,
  "limit": 15
});

More examples

{
  "min_mmi": 5,
  "limit": 10
}

Connect

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geonet-nz": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/geonet-nz/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

recent_quakes