earthquake-watch
Check recent earthquakes worldwide with zero API keys — USGS real-time GeoJSON feeds via curl, filtered by magnitude, region, and time window. Use when asked was there an earthquake just now, recent quakes near a place, any big earthquakes today, or monitor seismic activity somewhere. Produces the matching events with magnitude, depth, location and time, the felt/damage context bands, and the rerunnable command — with the official-guidance line safety questions require.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill earthquake-watch --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Earthquake Watch Skill "Did we just have an earthquake?" gets asked within seconds of every tremor, and the USGS answers globally in near-real-time over keyless HTTPS. This skill knows the feed matrix (magnitude threshold × time window), filters to the place actually asked about, and frames magnitudes honestly — a 4.5 under a city and a 6.0 under the ocean are different events, and depth is half the story. For anything safety-shaped, it points at official emergency guidance rather than improvising any. ## What This Skill Produces - **The events** — matching quakes with magnitude, depth, location, and time (converted to the user's zone) - **The context read** — what that magnitude/depth typically means for feeling it and damage, as bands not predictions - **The regional filter** — the feed is global; the answer is about the place asked - **The command** — exact curl, rerunnable ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **Where** — a place to filter around (the feeds are global; lat/lon of the place makes distance filtering honest) - **The window** — "just now" (past hour feed), today, this week - **The threshold** — significant-only vs. everything-they-can-feel (M2.5+) v
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Feed Matrix and the Framing
- Output Format
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the earthquake-watch skill do?
Check recent earthquakes worldwide with zero API keys — USGS real-time GeoJSON feeds via curl, filtered by magnitude, region, and time window. Use when asked was there an earthquake just now, recent quakes near a place, any big earthquakes today, or monitor seismic activity somewhere. Produces the matching events with magnitude, depth, location and time, the felt/damage context bands, and the rerunnable command — with the official-guidance line safety questions require.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill earthquake-watch --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.