Data Sources & Attribution
Quake Tracker Live combines public datasets. When several networks report the same earthquake, we show one entry and list the networks that confirmed it. We are grateful to the people and institutions who make these data available.
| Source | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| USGS – U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | Earthquake catalog (worldwide; U.S. down to small magnitudes). |
| EMSC – European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | CC BY 4.0 | Earthquake catalog and regional names. |
| GFZ GEOFON – GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences | CC BY 4.0 | Earthquake catalog and regional names. |
| GeoNames | CC BY 4.0 | City names and coordinates, used to describe where each earthquake happened. |
| Natural Earth | Public domain | Country boundaries and the base map. |
| OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap contributors | OpenStreetMap data: ODbL 1.0 · OpenMapTiles: CC BY 4.0 / BSD | Interactive base map (vector tiles served by OpenFreeMap). |
| U.S. Census Bureau | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | U.S. state boundaries. |
CC BY 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Data is used as published, with automatic processing (merging, place naming); we are not endorsed by these organizations and they are not responsible for this site. Magnitudes and locations may be revised by their sources.