# `io.github.cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Version: 0.4.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:33.676Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

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

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:14:46.563Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (4)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `earthquake_count_events`

- The name "earthquake_count_events" says "count": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Count earthquakes matching filters without fetching full records. Use for statistical queries ("how many M5+ earthquakes in 2025?") or to gauge result size before calling earthquake_search_events. Omitting start_time counts only the last 30 days, so pass an explicit range for any period-specific question; queryEcho reports the window and filters the count actually covers. When exceeds_limit is true, the count exceeds 20,000 and a full search would be truncated — narrow filters before fetching. USGS returns the max_allowed cap (20,000); EMSC count endpoint does not return this field (max_allowed will be null). Counts can be scoped to a rectangular study area with min_latitude, max_latitude, min_longitude, and max_longitude — each independently optional. Combining the box with the lat/lon/radius circle intersects the two, counting only events inside both. Both catalogs include non-tectonic records, so a radius over a mining region counts quarry blasts alongside earthquakes — pass event_type="earthquake" on USGS to exclude them. USGS-specific filters (alert_level, event_type, min_felt, min_significance) are not sent when source=emsc — the response names them in ignoredFilters.
```

### `earthquake_get_event`

- The name "earthquake_get_event" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch detail for a specific earthquake by USGS event ID. Returns the same normalized event a search result carries, plus a projection of the analysis products only the single-event response holds: PAGER impact alert and report link, ShakeMap peak intensity and ground motion, DYFI felt-report totals, the moment-tensor focal mechanism, landslide and liquefaction alerts, origin quality (azimuthal gap, station count, location uncertainty), and finite-fault rupture dimensions. Products are omitted when USGS produced none — a small automatic event typically has no detail at all, while a large reviewed one has most of it. Event IDs appear in the "id" field of earthquake_get_feed and earthquake_search_events results. This tool is USGS-only — EMSC events have no per-event detail endpoint.
```

### `earthquake_get_feed`

- The name "earthquake_get_feed" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a USGS pre-computed real-time earthquake feed by magnitude tier and time window. These feeds are CDN-cached by USGS and faster and more available than the query API — use them for "what's happening now" queries. "all" includes microseisms (M<1); "significant" is a USGS curation based on magnitude, felt reports, and PAGER impact estimates. "hour" returns 0–10 events typically; "month" can exceed 10,000 for the "all" tier, so results are returned a page at a time: count is the page size, totalCount the whole feed, and nextCursor the input for the following page. The cursor is opaque and must be passed back verbatim — unlike earthquake_search_events, these feeds retain the first-read generation for up to 15 minutes, subject to capacity eviction and restart. Pages fit a 24,000-byte result budget and can be smaller than limit. An expired cursor requires a fresh first read. For historical or filtered queries, use earthquake_search_events instead.
```

### `earthquake_search_events`

- The name "earthquake_search_events" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search earthquakes by time range, magnitude, depth, location radius, PAGER alert level, or felt reports. Supports USGS (global, richer metadata: PAGER, DYFI, ShakeMap) and EMSC, an independent global catalog operated by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. For location-based queries, provide latitude, longitude, and radius_km together. A rectangular study area is expressed with min_latitude, max_latitude, min_longitude, and max_longitude — each independently optional, so a single edge is a valid constraint. Combining the box with the lat/lon/radius circle intersects the two, returning only events inside both. Both catalogs include non-tectonic records (quarry blasts, explosions) — every event carries its event_type, and event_type="earthquake" filters the rest out on USGS. USGS-specific filters (alert_level, event_type, min_felt, min_significance) are not sent when source=emsc — the response names them in ignoredFilters. Use earthquake_count_events first to gauge result size before requesting large result sets. A call accepts limit up to 20,000 but fetches at most 100 candidates and returns a 24,000-byte page; retrieve remaining results by paging with offset, which is passed straight through to the upstream FDSN API. When a result is capped, nextOffset carries the offset for the following page and totalCount the full match count — or countUnavailable reports that the count lookup failed and the total is unknown.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `earthquake`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__earthquake__earthquake_get_feed",
      "mcp__earthquake__earthquake_search_events",
      "mcp__earthquake__earthquake_get_event",
      "mcp__earthquake__earthquake_count_events"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```