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IGN Spain Earthquake RSS

Spain's official IGN earthquake event headlines and coordinates for regional seismic context tools.

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At a Glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Tiny · ≤0.001 GB
Formats
XML
Access
API
API Key
Not Required
Provider
Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España
Updates
Near Real Time
Last Verified
Sep 28, 2026
Source Type
Government Source
Data Terms
IGN's public-sector information reuse terms permit reuse with attribution, preserved update dates and metadata, and no distortion or implied endorsement; geographic IGN products and services follow its CC BY-compatible user license.
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  • Runnable Notebook

From Source to Product Signal

Test a Product Idea in Four Steps

IGN lists a public earthquake RSS feed in its own RSS directory. Fetch one feed and inspect a few items; RSS headlines are regional event context, not a complete alert lifecycle or proof that a destination is safe.

1

Check the Setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • An internet connection
  • The requests Python package
2

Access the Data

  1. 1.Read IGN's RSS directory and public-sector reuse terms.
  2. 2.Fetch the earthquake RSS feed once.
  3. 3.Preserve each event's link, publication time, and any location metadata.
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3

Run the Python Example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install requests

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://www.ign.es/ign/RssTools/sismologia.xml", timeout=20,
)
response.raise_for_status()
root = ET.fromstring(response.content)
for item in root.findall("./channel/item")[:3]:
    print(item.findtext("title"), item.findtext("pubDate"),
          item.findtext("link"))
4

Test a Useful Signal

Review Recent Spanish Earthquakes

Show a few dated IGN earthquake notices with source links.

  1. 01Fetch and parse the official RSS feed.
  2. 02Show the publication time and original IGN event link.
  3. 03Explain why a headline feed does not establish local warning coverage.

Related Datasets

Dataset Details

Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España is a government source. Last verified 2026-09-28. Temporal coverage: recent official seismic notices.

Geography

Spain

Formats

XML

Provider

Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España

Data Terms

IGN's public-sector information reuse terms permit reuse with attribution, preserved update dates and metadata, and no distortion or implied endorsement; geographic IGN products and services follow its CC BY-compatible user license.

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