Live Earthquake Data in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Track global quakes from a cell. Returns 24-hour counts and the largest magnitude, auto-refreshing — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 2 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

earthquake.xlsxsample data

A2fx=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastUpdated")

Earthquakes Last Updated

Earthquakes Last Hour

Count24h

Largest Magnitude24h

Days Stored

2026-10-26T20:35:55.000Z

200

5.5

click any cell to see its formula2 credits / cell

Ways to use it

Conditions per location

Put your cities in a column and fill =VERVE("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastUpdated") beside them — every row shows live conditions, so an ops or travel sheet reflects the real world, not last week.

Logistics & scheduling

Gate a plan on the weather: read the forecast into a cell and let an IF formula flag rows that need a backup date.

A status board

Keep Live Earthquake Data as live formulas on one board — edit a location and its row looks up again, with no re-typing.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastUpdated")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastUpdated")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

periodPremium
Time window: hour (the past hour) or day (the past 24 hours)
=VERVE("earthquake", "period", "day")
minMagnitude
Only return earthquakes of at least this magnitude
=VERVE("earthquake", "minMagnitude", "2.5")
latPremium
Latitude to search around. With lon, returns only earthquakes within radius km, nearest first, each with distanceKm
=VERVE("earthquake", "lat", "34.05")
lonPremium
Longitude to search around (use with lat)
=VERVE("earthquake", "lon", "-118.24")
radiusPremium
Search radius in kilometers around lat/lon
=VERVE("earthquake", "radius", "250")
dailyPremium
Include one row per UTC day for the last 30 days: event count, largest magnitude and M4.5+ count
=VERVE("earthquake", "daily", "true")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Earthquakes Last Updated
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastUpdated")
Earthquakes Last Hour
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastHour")
Count24h
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "count24h")
Largest Magnitude24h
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "largestMagnitude24h")
Avg Magnitude24hPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "avgMagnitude24h")
Count7dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "count7d")
Count30dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "count30d")
Avg Daily Count30dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "avgDailyCount30d")
M45 Count30dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "m45Count30d")
Largest Magnitude7dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "largestMagnitude7d")
Largest Magnitude30dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "largestMagnitude30d")
Largest Place30dPremium
=VERVE("earthquake", "field", "largestPlace30d")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Live Earthquake Data, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Live Earthquake Data into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("earthquake", "field", "earthquakes_LastUpdated") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Live Earthquake Data?

Live Earthquake Data returns earthquakes_LastUpdated, earthquakes_LastHour, count24h and largestMagnitude24h — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Live Earthquake Data returns?

Yes — Live Earthquake Data takes "period", "minMagnitude", "lat" and "lon", plus 2 more as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("earthquake", "period", "day") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Which Live Earthquake Data fields need a paid plan?

avgMagnitude24h, count7d, count30d and avgDailyCount30d, plus 4 more are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Live Earthquake Data at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell and one call returns a value for every row, or drag =VERVE("earthquake") down like any spreadsheet function.

How many credits does each Live Earthquake Data cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 2 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Live Earthquake Data work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Live Earthquake Data

Conditions per location

Logistics & scheduling

A status board

Live Earthquake Data, answered

Put Live Earthquake Data in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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