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CWA Open Data Earthquake Reports

Earthquake reports and tsunami information for Taiwan from the Central Weather Administration Open Data platform, with a free key.

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About

The Central Weather Administration of Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications runs the Open Data platform at opendata.cwa.gov.tw. Its earthquake and tsunami datasets are E-A0015-001 and E-A0015-002, significant felt earthquake reports in Chinese and English; E-A0016-001 and E-A0016-002, small-area felt earthquake reports; and E-A0014-001, tsunami information. Each is served through the REST datastore at /api/v1/rest/datastore/{dataid} and as file downloads, in JSON or XML. Reports carry the earthquake number, date, time, location, depth, magnitude, and intensity by area. Membership is free and gives you the authorization key the API requires.

Through Fibric, an operator reads new reports as they are issued, matches intensity by county to your sites, and proposes an elevator check, a line-stop annotation, or a tsunami notice for your approval.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from CWA Open Data Earthquake Reports and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Significant felt earthquake reports from datastore E-A0015-001, and in English from E-A0015-002
  • Small-area felt earthquake reports from E-A0016-001, and in English from E-A0016-002
  • Tsunami information from E-A0014-001: tsunami number, message number, issue time, message text, and warning-area estimates
  • Filters on AreaName by county or city, StationName, OriginTime, timeFrom, and timeTo, with limit, offset, and sort
  • Report fields: earthquake number, date, time, location, depth, magnitude, and intensity by area
  • JSON by default or XML through the format parameter; the same datasets as file downloads from /fileapi/v1/opendataapi/{dataid}
  • Short-term past data lists and download URLs from /historyapi/v1/getDataId and /historyapi/v1/getMetadata for datasets that support it

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Queue elevator checks by reported intensity

    When a significant report lists your county at an intensity above your threshold, the operator proposes inspection tickets for the elevators at those sites, ordered by intensity.

    With Elevator Fault

  • Explain a line stop with the CWA report

    When a production line stopped within minutes of a report's origin time, the operator attaches the earthquake number, magnitude, and local intensity to the downtime record.

    With Line Downtime

  • Relay a tsunami message to coastal sites

    On a new E-A0014-001 message, the operator drafts a notice for sites inside the named warning areas and leaves the message number on the record.

    With Severe Weather Notice

Requirements

  • A CWA membership registered with a valid email address; the authorization key is shown after login
  • The dataset ids you need, such as E-A0015-001 for significant reports or E-A0014-001 for tsunami information
  • An AreaName list matching CWA's county and city names, such as 花蓮縣 or 臺北市, to filter intensity by site
  • The attribution statement from the platform rules, naming the Central Weather Administration and the dataset
Authentication
A free CWA member authorization key, passed as the Authorization query parameter or as an Authorization HTTP header; if both are sent, the header is checked first.

Limits

  • Update frequency for the earthquake and tsunami datasets is listed as irregular (不定期); reports appear when CWA issues them
  • Only https is served; the platform no longer redirects http requests
  • CWA may end membership after notice if unusual use affects the platform, network, or servers
  • Accounts idle for more than 1 year with no downloads may be deleted along with the API key

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

How do you get a CWA Open Data authorization key?
Register as a CWA weather member with a valid email address, which is free, log in to the Open Data platform, and use the button that shows your authorization key. The key takes the form CWA-1234ABCD-78EF-GH90-12XY-IJKL12345678.
Where does the key go in a request?
Either in the URL as Authorization={apikey} or in an HTTP header named Authorization. When both are present the header is used; if the header fails, the request is rejected without trying the URL value.
What licence covers the earthquake and tsunami datasets?
The platform's usage rules, which follow the Open Government Data License of the Ministry of Digital Affairs. Use is free for any purpose, including derived works, with attribution; the rules state compatibility with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
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This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by Central Weather Administration, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Taiwan (opendata.cwa.gov.tw). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy