Hazardous Events Using the EONET API
Learn how to keep track of earthly hazardous events using the EONET API.
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Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) is a repository that contains data for natural events such as storms, floods, and earthquakes. We can use the EONET API to access this data programmatically. Along with the event data, EONET provides event-related image layers to represent these events better. This repository is updated continuously so users can stay up to date.
EONET event categories
The events are cataloged into different categories. The base URL https://eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/v3/categories is used to get a list of all available categories. We can then use these categories to filter out events of a specific type.
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