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id: georss-ign-sismologia-client
version: "2026.6.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# georss-ign-sismologia-client — A GeoRSS client library for the IGN Sismologia feed.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 73.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This library wraps the Instituto Geográfico Nacional Sismología (IGN) earthquake feed as a GeoRSS client, letting you query earthquake events by location and magnitude. You instantiate a feed object with home coordinates and optional filters (radius in kilometers, minimum magnitude), then call `update()` to fetch the latest data. The library returns a status code and a list of feed entries, each populated with geometry, coordinates, magnitude, region, published date, and other earthquake metadata.

The package includes a Feed Manager that tracks changes across updates—reporting new events, updates to existing events, and removed entries. It maintains timestamps of the last successful update and the latest data timestamp, useful for applications that need to handle intermittent feed failures or process only genuinely new events. Dependencies are minimal (georss_client and dateparser), and the library is actively maintained for modern Python versions.

Use it for:

- Home automation systems that trigger alerts when earthquakes occur within a specified radius of a user's location.
- Seismic monitoring dashboards that display recent earthquakes above a certain magnitude threshold for a geographic region.
- Emergency response applications that need to track earthquake events and their properties for incident management.
- Data collection pipelines that periodically fetch and archive earthquake events for analysis or research.
- Mobile or web apps that show users earthquake activity near their home or workplace with distance and magnitude details.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Fetches and parses earthquake event data from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional Sismología feed, with support for geographic filtering and magnitude thresholds.

Yes. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and a clear use case for earthquake-aware applications. The Apache-2.0 license poses no restrictions. Install it if you need to integrate IGN earthquake data into a Python application.

## Install

pip install georss-ign-sismologia-client
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poetry add georss-ign-sismologia-client

## Installing georss-ign-sismologia-client

Before you install: Low install friction with just two runtime dependencies. Active maintenance as of late July 2026, marked Production/Stable, and supports current Python versions (3.11–3.14).

License in practice: Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install georss-ign-sismologia-client

from georss_ign_sismologia_client import IgnSismologiaFeed
feed = IgnSismologiaFeed((40.38, -3.72), filter_radius=200, filter_minimum_magnitude=3.0)
status, entries = feed.update()

Requires Python 3.11 or later.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the feed data includes real-time updates or has a known latency.
- Whether the library handles authentication or API keys for the IGN feed.
- Performance characteristics when filtering large result sets.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 73.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

earthquake feed client, georss earthquake data, ign sismologia feed, seismic event parser, earthquake alerts by location, georss client library, earthquake magnitude filter, earthquake-data, georss, homeassistant

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