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USGS Earthquake Feed near Insured Population Centers

count/magnitude of M3.5+ quakes within 50mi of major metro (LA, SF, Seattle, Memphis/New Madrid)

Feed detail
Measures
count/magnitude of M3.5+ quakes within 50mi of major metro (LA, SF, Seattle, Memphis/New Madrid)
Source
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program GeoJSON feed (earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed)
Access
json-api
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Quake clustering/swarms near underinsured metros (California earthquake insurance take-up is low, ~10%) presages CEA (California Earthquake Authority) and cat bond stress
Maps to
California Earthquake Authority cat bonds, CEA-linked ILS
Crowdedness
commodity
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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