Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland

APIReferenceSubscribe🇨🇭Switzerland

The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH Zurich (SED). It is constantly updated. The parameters (location, time, magnitude) of very recently recorded earthquakes are…

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Data access

Map service (WMS)

Serves rendered map images, not a downloadable table — so there is no tabular schema. The service's GetCapabilities document lists the available map layers.

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Configuration

Base URL: https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=en

Query examples

curl -s 'https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=en' -H 'Accept: application/json'

Base API endpoint — see the documentation for available routes.

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