Earthquake Feed
In addition to the TCP ping service on port 9999, we’re now publishing a feed of all earthquakes - as well as additional related information - to a TCP service on port 1226.
As with the ping feed, this is actually derived from data running through the PubSub system. It’s possible, for example, to subscribe to earthquakes in a specific region, or with a certain magnitude, and so on. (For a sample of what PubSub output would look like, see this Atom feed). We found that the simple TCP service we use for pings is a useful way of distributing high-volume information to multiple clients, so we’ve created a similar service for earthquake data.
To try it out, simply point a telnet client at port 1226. The structure of the data should be pretty self-evident. All data is collected from the USGS, and wherever possible we include links back to their site. Please note that any data delivered via PubSub should be considered informational only - we are not validating or authenticating any of this information.
the ping feed, please consider the earthquake feed a beta-quality service, subject to change without notice. Please send any questions, comments or feedback about this service to us at feedback@pubsub.com.
October 8th, 2005 at 6:16 am
[…] Now there is a thing known as the Feedmesh, a little coop including Feedster, Bloglines, blo.gs, Yahoo!, Technorati. The idea is that you use more stream-like protocol like XMPP to share the ping data between services. Another of that group, PubSub have been forward about making their ping data publically available (and earthquake data!). Here’s what Jason Calacanis said at Gnomedex about that: …The second big question I had was, “I understand everyone is now listening to this, but who is giving their data on new blog posts into it?” The answer to that was dead silence. Turns out only Pubsub is putting their data into it–Technorati and Feedster folks are way to smart to give their data (i.e. their entire business) into the cloud. […]