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Earthquakes recent
An MCP tool from the Public Knowledge server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.
Recent earthquakes worldwide from the USGS feed: magnitude, place, time, depth, coordinates, tsunami flag and details link. Choose a minimum magnitude and period (past hour, day, week or month). Optionally keep only quakes within a radius of a point.
Name on the gateway: knowledge__earthquakes_recent · read-only.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
min_magnitude | significant | 4.5 | 2.5 | 1.0 | all | Feed threshold. Default 4.5. |
period | hour | day | week | month | Default day. |
latitude | number | Optional centre latitude for a radius filter. |
longitude | number | Optional centre longitude. |
radius_km | number | Radius in km around the centre (default 500 when a centre is given). |
limit | integer | Most quakes to return (default 20, max 50). |
How to call it
Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:
{
"name": "knowledge__earthquakes_recent",
"arguments": {}
}Or connect the Public Knowledge server directly, which lists 47 tools including this one:
claude mcp add --transport http hj-knowledge https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/knowledge \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Try asking
Use the earthquakes recent tool with min_magnitude set to ….