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U.S. Geological Survey Time Series Data API

Continuous and daily value water data from USGS monitoring locations.

U.S. Geological Survey Time Series Data API is one of 11 APIs that U.S. Geological Survey publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 3 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Time Series Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, a JSON-LD context, authentication docs, and 3 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1.

1 operations 1 paths 4 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Time Series Data 1

Continuous and daily value water data from USGS monitoring locations.

GET
/collections/time-series/items
USGS Water Data Get Time Series
getTimeSeries 8 params → 200400403429

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are TimeSeriesProperties (7 properties), TimeSeriesCollection (4 properties), TimeSeriesFeature (2 properties), ErrorResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TimeSeriesProperties
object
Properties of a single water data observation.
7 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Standard OGC API error response.
2 properties
TimeSeriesCollection
object
Collection of USGS water data time series observations.
4 properties
TimeSeriesFeature
object
A single time series observation from a USGS monitoring location.
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

u-s-geological-survey-time-series-data-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs U.S. Geological Survey publishes across the network.

Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
Seismic Design Web Service
ScienceBase
StreamStats Web Services
USGS Water Services (Legacy)
U.S. Geological Survey Catalog API
USGS Water Data OGC API
U.S. Geological Survey Earthquakes API
U.S. Geological Survey Monitoring Locations API
U.S. Geological Survey Reference Data API
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