Earthscope Fdsn

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FDSN seismic web services MCP — seismometer metadata, data holdings and

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free tier50 calls/day

Tools

fdsn_stations

"Which seismometers are near Yellowstone?" / "what channels does station IU ANMO record?" — seismic station metadata from EarthScope, the largest FDSN data centre. AUTHORITATIVE for where seismic inst

No parameters required.

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fdsn_events

"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, do

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fdsn_availability

"Where can I download waveform data for station IU ANMO in September 2026?" — which FDSN data centres actually hold seismic waveform data for a given network/station/channel and time window, from the

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/earthscope-fdsn/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/earthscope-fdsn/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"fdsn_stations","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("fdsn_stations", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("fdsn seismic web services mcp — seismometer metadata, data holdings and");