Nearby Cities

Types

nearby-cities

This product contains data about cities near to the event. Cities are ordered by their relative distance.

When this product is not contributed, nearby places are loaded from the Geoserve Places web service. For example: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ws/geoserve/places.json?latitude=45.1&longitude=-70.1&type=event

Properties

Not applicable

Contents

nearby-cities.inc.html

[text/html] List markup for the cities.

nearby-cities.json

[applicaiton/json] Structured JSON string containing nearby city data.

JSON Format

The JSON file should contain an array of city objects, typically 5 nearby places.

City object properties

distance

distance from epicenter in kilometers

direction

compass direction from city/place to epicenter

name

name of city/place

longitude

longitude in decimal degrees

latitude

latitude in decimal degrees

population

population of city, or null
(NOTE: this must be the JSON null value, not a quoted string)

Example

[
  {
    "distance": 2,
    "direction":"SE",
    "name":"Berkeley, California",
    "longitude":-122.2746,
    "latitude":37.8718,
    "population":null
  },
  {
    "distance":4,
    "direction":"NE",
    "name":"Emeryville, California",
    "longitude":-122.2853,
    "latitude":37.8313,
    "population":null
  }
]