Quake
Quake is a library exposing the U.S. Geological Survey's real-time earthquake data. As described on USGS' Earthquake Hazards Program, "earthquake information is extracted from a merged catalog of earthquakes located by the USGS and contributing networks. Earthquakes will be broadcast within a few minutes for California events, and within 30-minutes for worldwide events".
Installation
via Gem:
[sudo|rvm] gem install quake
via Bundler:
gem "quake"
Basic Usage
Fetch all the earthquakes from the past week:
events = Quake::Event.last_week
Fetch all the earthquakes from the past day:
events = Quake::Event.last_day
Fetch all the earthquakes from the past hour:
events = Quake::Event.last_hour
Fetch all the earthquakes from the past week with a magnitude of at least 2:
events = Quake::Event.last_week(2)
Questions or Problems?
If you have any issues, please add them to GitHub or fork the project and send a pull request (with tests of course). The tests are very straight forward, nothing more than minitest; yay for simplicity!