https://github.com/ljdelight/EarthquakeInfoSkill

Amazon Echo (Alexa) skill to read out recent earthquakes in the world
https://github.com/ljdelight/EarthquakeInfoSkill

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Amazon Echo (Alexa) skill to read out recent earthquakes in the world

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ljdelight/EarthquakeInfoSkill
• Owner: ljdelight
• License: bsl-1.0
• Created: 2015-08-18T05:21:44.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-05-21T14:35:58.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-04T00:04:16.933Z (5 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 19.5 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Earthquake Info Skill

Earthquake Info reports the magnitude and location of several recent earthquakes near a particular city.

# Features

This is an Amazon Echo skill using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) SDK, and can be easily deployed to AWS Lambda. The service does not report earthquakes with a magnitude less than 3.0, or earthquakes over X days.

## Example Calls Using the Echo

Here are some sample conversations that you can have with Alexa.

### Example 1

Alexa, start Earthquake Info.  

*Near what city do you want to search for earthquakes?*  

Wichita, Kansas  

*Two earthquakes near Wichita. A magnitude 3.1 near Anthony. A magnitude 3.7 near Medford.*

### Example 2

Alexa, ask Earthquake Info about Palm Springs.  

*One earthquake near Palm Springs.  A magnitude 4.01 near Big Bear Lake.*

### Example 3

Alexa, ask Earthquake Info about San Francisco, California.  

*No earthquakes near San Francisco in the last 14 days.*

# Technologies Used

* [AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/). I deploy the source on Lambda because it's very low cost (1M calls per month free), scales easily, and configuration is simple.

* [Google Maps Geocoding API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro). This is used to convert a city location into coordinates.

  * NOTE: An API Key is required to use this service.

* [USGS Earthquake Catalog API](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/). The USGS API tells us the earthquakes in a certain location and we can filter the results by using optional arguments in the API call.