Skills

Natural Hazard Watch

Lists recent earthquakes, wildfires and storms worldwide or near a place.

Install

npx skills add koala73/worldmonitor --skill hazard-watch -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
koala73/worldmonitor89.9k
Category
Data and ML
Updated
3d ago
License
AGPL-3.0
Context cost
Lightabout 294 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

List recent significant earthquakes, active wildfires and other natural hazard events worldwide or near a place, from World Monitor's USGS, NRCan and NASA FIRMS feeds. Use when the user asks about recent earthquakes, wildfires, storms or other natural disasters.

Hazard watch

Report recent natural hazards from World Monitor's seeded feeds.

Tools

ToolAccess
get_natural_disastersfree-account

Steps

  1. Call get_natural_disasters. When the user names a hazard type, pass dataset as an array: ["earthquakes"], ["wildfires"] or ["other"]. For a place, pass lat, lon and radius_km (up to 2000). Use since_days: 7 unless the user asks for another window, and active_only: true for events still under way.
  2. For earthquakes give magnitude, location, depth and time. For wildfires give location and detection time. For other events give type, location and whether the event is still active.
  3. Sort by severity, then by time. Each list is capped at 30 items by default; when a list comes back with exactly 30, say there may be more and offer a narrower area or window.

Rules

  • The earthquake feed covers magnitude 4.5 and above. Say so when a user asks about smaller quakes.
  • Give every time in UTC with its date.
  • If the result reports simplified geometry or a source outage, tell the user which part is affected.
  • Do not estimate casualties or damage the data does not report.

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