Hazard

Hazard — connector documentation

• MCP endpoint: https://hazard.connectorbay.com/mcp
• REST API: POST https://hazard.connectorbay.com/v1/tools/{tool_name}, described by the OpenAPI 3.1 spec at https://hazard.connectorbay.com/openapi.json
• Transport: Streamable HTTP, stateless, MCP specification 2025-06-18 or later
• Authentication: none required. An optional Authorization: Bearer <key> raises rate limits.
• Health: https://hazard.connectorbay.com/health · Tool schemas: https://hazard.connectorbay.com/tools.json
• Publisher: Unify Dynamics LLC · connectorbay.com/hazard · agent@connectorbay.com

What Hazard is for

"Is anything dangerous happening near me?" answered from the agencies that actually monitor it — USGS for earthquakes, NOAA's tsunami warning centres, the National Hurricane Center, GDACS (the EU/UN disaster alert system), NASA's EONET satellite event tracker and the Smithsonian/USGS weekly volcano report — with every event carrying a time, a place, a distance from the user's location and a plain verdict.

What it does

Earthquakes near a place or worldwide with magnitude, depth, PAGER impact colour, felt reports, shaking intensity and tsunami flag; one quake in depth; USGS's significant-quakes list for the day, week or month. The latest tsunami messages with category (information / watch / advisory / warning). Active tropical cyclones with Saffir–Simpson category, winds, pressure, movement and advisory links. GDACS red/orange/green alerts for floods, cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, wildfires and droughts, filterable by hazard, country and recency and rankable by distance. NASA-tracked wildfires, severe storms, volcanoes, floods, sea ice, dust and temperature extremes by category or near a place. This week's volcanic activity. And near_me, which runs all of it for one place and summarises.

What it is not

Hazard is not a warning system. It relays what agencies publish, with the delays and gaps that implies; local weather warnings, evacuation orders and civil-protection alerts are not in these feeds. NHC covers only the Atlantic and Eastern/Central Pacific (GDACS covers cyclones elsewhere); the tsunami feeds are the two U.S. centres. If a user may be in danger, the answer is to follow local authorities, not this connector.

Tools

Earthquakes

earthquakes — Recent earthquakes near a place or worldwide (USGS): magnitude, location, depth, time with 'ago', distance and direction from the place, PAGER impact alert (green/yellow/orange/red), felt reports, estimated shaking intensity, and tsunami flag. Use for "earthquakes near Tokyo this week", "any big quakes today", "was there a quake in California just now". Args: place, latitude, longitude, radius_km, min_magnitude, days, max_results.

earthquake — One earthquake in detail (USGS): magnitude and type, depth, review status, PAGER alert and expected impact, shaking intensity (ShakeMap MMI), Did-You-Feel-It responses, origin quality, tsunami flag and links to the event page, ShakeMap and region info. Use after earthquakes when the user asks "tell me more about that one". Args: event_id.

significant_earthquakes — USGS's curated list of significant earthquakes for the past day, week or month — chosen for magnitude, felt reports and impact rather than size alone. Use for "what were the big earthquakes this week". Args: period.

Ocean & storms

tsunami_statements — Latest tsunami messages from NOAA's two warning centres — information statements, watches, advisories and warnings — with region, category, preliminary magnitude, issue time and bulletin link. A statement usually means 'no tsunami expected'; the category says which. Use for "is there a tsunami warning", "tsunami risk after that quake".

tropical_cyclones — Active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Eastern and Central Pacific from the National Hurricane Center: classification (depression/storm/hurricane), Saffir–Simpson category, sustained winds, pressure, position, movement, latest advisory and graphics links, watches/warnings. Use for "is there a hurricane right now", "where is Hurricane X heading".

Alerts & events

disaster_alerts — Global disaster alerts from GDACS (EC Joint Research Centre / UN OCHA): floods, tropical cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, wildfires and droughts with red/orange/green alert level, affected countries, dates, severity and report link. Use for "what disasters are active in Asia", "any red alerts", "floods in India right now". Args: alert_level, hazard, country, place, days, max_results.

natural_events — Natural events NASA is tracking from satellites (EONET): wildfires with acreage, severe storms, volcanoes, floods, icebergs and sea ice, dust and haze, temperature extremes — currently open, by category and/or near a place, with last-observed position and source links. Use for "wildfires near Los Angeles", "which volcanoes are active", "storms NASA is tracking". Args: category, place, latitude, longitude, radius_km, days, max_results.

volcano_report — The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report: every volcano with notable activity this week, where it is, and a summary of eruptions, ash plumes, lava flows and alert levels. Use for "which volcanoes erupted this week", "what's Etna doing", "volcanic activity in Indonesia". Args: volcano.

humanitarian_disasters — Ongoing and alert-status disasters as tracked by UN OCHA's ReliefWeb (humanitarian view: type, countries, GLIDE number, status, links). Requires the operator to have configured a ReliefWeb appname; otherwise this tool says so and disaster_alerts (GDACS) is the alternative. Args: query, country.

Combined

near_me — Everything hazardous happening near a place right now, in one call: earthquakes M2.5+ in the last 7 days, GDACS alerts, NASA-tracked events (fires, storms, volcanoes, floods), tropical cyclones within 1,500 km, and any tsunami watch/warning — each with distance and direction, plus a one-line verdict. Use for "anything dangerous near Lisbon", "is my area affected by anything", "situation around Manila". Args: place, latitude, longitude, radius_km.

Conventions

• Read-only. Every tool reads public data or computes; nothing is written anywhere and nothing about the user is stored.
• Result envelope. ok: true with data, or ok: false with a structured error (bad_input, not_found, upstream_error). degraded lists optional sources that were unreachable.
• Rate limits. Free tier 60 tool calls/minute and 300/day per user (keyed on the user identifier supplied by the host agent, else client IP); Pro keys raise this. Over-limit calls return HTTP 429 with Retry-After. initialize and tools/list are never counted.

Support

agent@connectorbay.com · connectorbay.com/hazard/support

Hazard — Privacy Policy

Effective 23 September 2026. Unify Dynamics LLC ("we", "us"), Menlo Park, California.

What Hazard is. Hazard is a connector (an MCP server and REST API) that AI assistants and personal agents call on your behalf for natural-hazard information: earthquakes, tsunami messages, tropical cyclones, disaster alerts, satellite-tracked natural events and volcanic activity. You interact with your assistant; the assistant sends us only the place name or coordinates and filters needed for the lookup.

What we receive. The arguments of each tool call (a place name or coordinates, a radius, a hazard type, an event id), the technical headers needed to serve the request (an IP address or a client identifier supplied by the assistant, and a Pro API key if you have one), and standard server logs.

Lookups are forwarded, not stored. A place name is resolved to coordinates with a bundled gazetteer, or by Open-Meteo's geocoder when it is not in the bundle. Coordinates are sent to USGS to find nearby earthquakes and to NASA EONET as a bounding box; the other feeds are fetched whole and filtered on our server, so those sources never see your location. Nothing you send is stored, logged in request bodies, profiled or used to train anything. Successful upstream answers are cached in memory for minutes to hours, keyed by the query, to reduce load on the sources.

What we do not receive or store. We do not receive your conversation with the assistant, your name, contacts, accounts or credentials for any service, or your precise location beyond what the assistant sends for one lookup. Rate-limit counters (a client identifier and timestamps) are held in memory for at most 24 hours. Hosting-provider access logs, which contain IP addresses and request paths but not request bodies, are retained for up to 30 days for security and abuse prevention.

Sub-processors. USGS (earthquake catalogue; receives coordinates and radius), NASA EONET (receives a bounding box), NOAA tsunami.gov, NOAA NHC, GDACS (EC JRC), Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program (feeds fetched whole, no user data), Open-Meteo (place-name geocoding), and optionally ReliefWeb (UN OCHA; only if the operator has configured an appname). Each receives at most the query and our server's IP address, never yours. Hosting: Vercel (United States regions).

Legal bases and your rights. For users in California, the EU/UK and elsewhere, our processing is necessary to provide the service you request through your assistant. Because we store no personal data beyond short-lived logs, requests to access, correct or delete personal data are usually satisfied automatically; you can still contact agent@connectorbay.com and we will respond within 30 days. We do not sell or share personal information and do not use your data to train models.

Children. Hazard is a general-audience service operated by the adult using the assistant.

Changes. We will post changes here with a new effective date.

Hazard — Terms of Service

Effective 23 September 2026. These terms govern use of the Hazard connector ("the Service") operated by Unify Dynamics LLC ("we", "us").

1. The Service. Hazard relays natural-hazard information — earthquakes, tsunami messages, tropical cyclones, disaster alerts, satellite-tracked events and volcanic activity — from public agencies, and computes distances and summaries. It is accessed through an AI assistant or directly over MCP or HTTP.
2. Not a warning service. The Service is for situational awareness only. It is not an emergency-alert, early-warning or evacuation service, may lag or miss events, and must never be the sole basis for a safety decision. Follow local civil-protection authorities and official warnings.
3. Sources. USGS, NOAA (tsunami.gov, NHC), GDACS (European Commission JRC / UN OCHA), NASA EONET, the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, GeoNames (CC BY) and Open-Meteo; optionally UN OCHA ReliefWeb. We do not control these sources; figures such as magnitudes are preliminary and revised by the agencies.
4. Acceptable use. Do not use the Service to overwhelm the underlying agencies or to circumvent rate limits. Automated use within the published limits is welcome.
5. Availability. The Service is provided "as is" without warranty. We may change, limit or discontinue it at any time.
6. Data. Our Privacy Policy describes what we process. In short: your place is used for one lookup and nothing is stored.
7. Attribution. USGS; NOAA; GDACS; NASA EONET; Smithsonian GVP / USGS Volcano Hazards Program; GeoNames; Open-Meteo.
8. Pro keys. Optional Pro API keys are issued at our discretion, are personal to the holder and may be revoked for abuse.
9. Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Unify Dynamics LLC is not liable for any loss, injury or damage arising from use of or reliance on the Service. Our total liability is limited to US $100.
10. Governing law. California law; venue in San Mateo County, California.
11. Contact. Unify Dynamics LLC · agent@connectorbay.com · https://connectorbay.com/hazard

Hazard support

Email agent@connectorbay.com. We answer within two business days.

• MCP endpoint: https://hazard.connectorbay.com/mcp
• REST API: https://hazard.connectorbay.com/openapi.json
• Live status: https://hazard.connectorbay.com/health

When you report a problem, include the question you asked your agent, roughly when, and which agent you used (for example Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini). Never send us passwords, account numbers or ID numbers. Hazard never asks for them.