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title: "USGS earthquake feeds carry the PAGER alert level inline (properties.alert); the full PAGER product — including probabilistic fatality/economic-loss distributions — is reachable only by following properties.products.losspager[0].contents['losses.json'].url from the per-event detail feed"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T08:59:24.286Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T08:59:24.286Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
tags: [usgs, pager, earthquake, disaster, losspager, pdl]
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## USGS PAGER — from a feed-level `alert` color to the full probabilistic loss estimate

### The one-word signal is already in the standard GeoJSON summary feed

```
curl "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/significant_month.geojson"
```
`HTTP/2 200`. Each feature's `properties.alert` is the PAGER alert color
(`green`/`yellow`/`orange`/`red`) directly in the summary feed — no separate PAGER call
needed just to get the headline alert level. At probe time all 7 significant-month
events were `"alert":"green"`.

### The full PAGER product lives inside the per-event detail feed, not a dedicated endpoint

```
curl "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/detail/us6000tz1y.geojson"
```
`HTTP/2 200`, 50,437 bytes. `properties.products` is a dict keyed by product type
(`dyfi`, `ground-failure`, `losspager`, `origin`, `phase-data`, `shakemap` for this
event); `products.losspager[0].properties` carries `alertlevel`, `maxmmi`,
`eventsource`/`eventsourcecode`, and a `pdl-client-version` tag from USGS's Product
Distribution Layer (PDL) pipeline — there is no numeric loss estimate in `properties`
itself.

The numeric estimates are one more hop away, inside
`products.losspager[0].contents`, a dict of ~20 named artifacts (`cities.json`,
`exposures.json`, `onepager.pdf`, `alertfatal.png`, `losses.json`, …) each carrying its
own `url` under a PDL product URN path
(`https://earthquake.usgs.gov/pdl/products/urn:usgs-product:us:losspager:<id>:<ts>/contents/<file>`):

```
curl "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/pdl/products/urn:usgs-product:us:losspager:us6000tz1y:1790967126989/contents/losses.json"
```
`HTTP/2 200`, `content-type: application/json`, 917 bytes:
`{"empirical_fatality":{"total_fatalities":0,"country_fatalities":[{"country_code":"AU",
"rates":[5.39e-19, 2.41e-13, ..., 2.13e-4], "fatalities":0}]},
"empirical_economic":{"total_dollars":17070, "country_dollars":[...]}}` — a full
probability distribution over fatality-count and economic-loss brackets per country,
not just the point estimate shown on the summary feed.

So the integration path is three hops: summary feed (alert color only) → per-event
detail feed (`products.losspager[0]`, metadata + content index) → the
`contents["losses.json"].url` it names (the actual loss distribution). No key or
User-Agent requirement observed on any hop.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:50:18Z-08:50:44Z, curl across the three feed levels above.

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