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    Earthquake.stream

To connect to Earthquake Streams data feed you need to use a pusher library such as https://github.com/pusher/pusher-js
Live Demo Code @ https://codepen.io/mapdev/pen/XaexdY
Required Keys

To connect you need

Pusher Key: cb8e92ce5edfd617ee0a
Pusher Cluster: mt1
Event Name: earthquake
Channels [all]

Channels

Currently there is only the one channel all but other will be available soon
There are 6 channels:

all
minor
light
strong
significant
tsunami


All data is fired to a earthquake event
All earthquake alerts are sent to the all channel
Significant earthquakes are sent to the significant channel
Earthquakes that may create a tsunami are sent to the tsunami channel
The other three channels, minor, light, and strong are based on magnitudes <2.5, <4.5, and >4.5 respectivily


Code

Below is a code snippet to connect in JavaScript
Include this in the <head>
<script src="https://js.pusher.com/4.1/pusher.min.js"></script>
Setup Pusher
var pusher = new Pusher('cb8e92ce5edfd617ee0a', {
  cluster: 'mt1'
});
Connect to a specific channel
var channel = pusher.subscribe('all');
Listen for an earthquake
channel.bind('earthquake', function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});