Earthquake Map Widget for Your Website

You can add a live earthquake map to any website, blog, or dashboard with a single line of code — free, with no sign-up, no plugin, and no script to install. It shows recent earthquakes worldwide straight from the USGS feeds, with magnitude, depth, location and time, and can sort by distance from any place you choose. This guide covers the fastest way to embed the Earthquake Tracker, how to centre it on a place, how to preset the filters, and how to match it to your site’s theme.

The quickest way: paste one embed snippet

An embed is just an <iframe> that loads the map from lkforge.com, plus a small credit line. Copy this into your page’s HTML where you want the map to appear:

<iframe src="https://lkforge.com/embed/earthquake-tracker/?place=Tokyo"
        width="100%" height="720" loading="lazy"
        style="border:0;max-width:760px"
        title="Earthquake Tracker by LK Forge"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://lkforge.com/tools/earthquakes/">Earthquake Tracker</a>
   by <a href="https://lkforge.com/">LK Forge</a></p>

The <iframe> is the live map; the <p> underneath is a plain credit link. Keep that line — the visible link is what keeps the widget free to embed. Drop the ?place=Tokyo for a plain worldwide map.

Centre it on a place with ?place= or ?region=

To point the map at somewhere specific, add a place or region to the URL — ?place=Tokyo, ?place=Los+Angeles or ?region=California. The widget geocodes it, centres the map there, and sorts the list by distance from that point, so the closest quakes come first. To trim it to a radius, add ?maxdist=200 — read in miles when ?units=mi, otherwise kilometres.

Preset the filters with ?mag=, ?period= and ?units=

You can lock the widget to a magnitude floor, a time window and a distance unit so it loads exactly the view you want:

• ?mag= — minimum magnitude: 1, 2.5, 4.5 or significant.
• ?period= — time range: hour, day, week or month.
• ?units= — distances in km or mi (defaults to showing both).
• ?embed=nomap — hide the map and legend for a compact, list-only widget; pair with ?limit=10 to shorten the list.

Parameters combine with &, for example /embed/earthquake-tracker/?region=Japan&mag=4.5&period=week&units=mi.

Match your site with ?theme=

By default the embedded map stays light. To lock it to one theme — so a dark blog always gets a dark map — add a theme parameter:

https://lkforge.com/embed/earthquake-tracker/?place=Tokyo&theme=dark

Use &theme=dark or &theme=light. The card background is transparent, so the dark theme sits cleanly on a dark page and the light theme on a light one.

Where it works

Because it is a standard iframe, the embed works anywhere you can add HTML:

• WordPress: add a Custom HTML block and paste the snippet.
• Squarespace: use a Code / Embed block.
• Wix: add an Embed HTML / iframe element.
• Ghost: insert an HTML card.
• Notion: paste the /embed/earthquake-tracker/ URL and choose "Create embed".
• Plain HTML, an intranet, or a dashboard: paste the snippet straight into the markup.

That’s the whole job. Pick a place, preset the filters and theme to taste, and paste the snippet wherever a local-news page, a travel site, or an emergency dashboard needs live earthquake data at a glance. Explore the full view first on the Earthquake Tracker.