Title: [Plugin: Earthquakemonitor Widget] Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Earthquakemonitor Widget] Error

 *  Resolved [Peter Ould](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pould/)
 * (@pould)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-earthquakemonitor-widget-error/)
 * Am getting the following error messages when using the widget.
 * Warning: filemtime() [function.filemtime]: stat failed for eqmdata in /var/www/
   vhosts/rapturefail.org/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/earthquakemonitor/EarthquakeMonitor.
   php on line 200
 * Warning: file_put_contents(eqmdata) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open
   stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/rapturefail.org/httpdocs/wp-content/
   plugins/earthquakemonitor/EarthquakeMonitor.php on line 205
 * Then displays title and no earthquakes found.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/earthquakemonitor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/earthquakemonitor/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Cris van Geel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crisvangeel/)
 * (@crisvangeel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-earthquakemonitor-widget-error/#post-2090877)
 * Hi,
 * It looks like you have no read/write permission on your temp folder.
    If you 
   make a little PHP file , call it phpinfo.php and inside you put
 *     ```
       <?php
       phpinfo();
       ?>
       ```
   
 * You will have to look for a value called **upload_tmp_dir**
 * Make sure you have read and write rights on this directory. I will release an
   updated version of the script that will pre-check on this.
 * Thanks for the notice!
 *  Plugin Author [Cris van Geel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crisvangeel/)
 * (@crisvangeel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-earthquakemonitor-widget-error/#post-2090881)
 * I have released v1.3
 * Please check if this solves your issue.
    There was a bug with the tmp folder.

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 * Last reply from: [Cris van Geel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crisvangeel/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-earthquakemonitor-widget-error/#post-2090881)
 * Status: resolved