earthquake-guide

earthquake-guide is a skill for Claude Code from cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,233 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guidance skill for using USGS ComCat and EMSC, catalogs of recorded earthquakes. It explains how to compare events, search by coordinates and radius, inspect aftershock forecasts, and interpret missing data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess earthquake size and location, match records between catalogs, list or count events, and review available aftershock products.
Why use it?
It prevents confusing catalog coverage with earthquake absence and avoids treating event labels or tsunami flags as warnings or forecasts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the earthquake-mcp-server plugin — 35 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess earthquake size and location, match records between catalogs, list or count events, and review available aftershock products.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server/earthquake-guide
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server --skill earthquake-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install earthquake-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,233 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00088 $0.02233
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00893
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00223

Measured today against content hash 42ffcef1c5dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

earthquake-guide scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/earthquake-guide/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope

Catalog records of past seismic events from two independent global catalogs, plus the analysis products USGS attaches to its events. Keyless.

  • Not a forecast service. The only forward-looking numbers are the USGS aftershock forecasts attached to some events. Not a tsunami warning service: the tsunami field flags a large oceanic event; tsunami.gov has warning status.
  • No geocoding, no place filter. The tools take coordinates. place ("12 km NE of …") is display text that no input matches against. Resolve "near X" to latitude/longitude with a geocoding tool first, then search or count within a radius.
  • The feed can't be scoped by area. earthquake_get_feed returns one global USGS tier for a rolling window ("Past Week" means the 7 days before generation, not the calendar week). For a place-scoped question, use earthquake_search_events with a radius and an explicit start.
  • Which catalog holds small events depends on the region. M2.5+ over the 30 days to 2026-10-28: an Italy box returned 6 USGS events and 162 EMSC; a Japan box 40 and 92; a California box 66 and 72. At M4+ the Italy box converged (5 vs 7). For small events outside the US, query EMSC, and always say which catalog a count came from.

Identifiers

ID Looks like Comes from
USGS event ID network prefix + code: ci38457511, us6000u18k id in feed and USGS search results; the segment after /eventpage/ in a USGS event page URL
EMSC event ID (unid) YYYYMMDD_NNNNNNN: 20190706_0000043 id in search results with source emsc
  • One USGS event, many IDs. Every contributing network files its own ID. earthquake_get_event accepts any of them, case-insensitively, and returns the preferred one: us70004bn0 comes back as ci38457511. The others are listed in associated_ids. Use the returned id from then on, and treat any ID in associated_ids as the same event when deduplicating. An ID from a news link, an earlier read, or another network can be one of these aliases.
  • No ID links the two catalogs. associated_ids never holds an EMSC unid. To get from a USGS event to its EMSC record, or back, match by time and place (Workflows).

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 65 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 42ffcef1c5dc

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earthquake-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyanheads/earthquake-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,233 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-29.

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