meigwilym / ukquakealerts

Checks the BGS recent earthquake data and tweets about it

UK Earthquake Alert Twitter Bot

This is the code that runs the @uk_quake twitter account.

It's a Laravel app (PHP) that:

• Checks the UK Geological Survey RSS feed
• Compares with the latest date saved
• If there's fresh items, tweets an alert with a link to the UKGS page, and to a map

The feed is checked every 5 minutes.

Sources

UK Geological Survey RSS feed: http://quakes.bgs.ac.uk/feeds/MhSeismology.xml

More sources are available from The BGS online data feed page.

Code by @meigwilym.