Portable Class Libraries and webservices

Geonames Client Api

    public class GeonamesApi
    {
        public Earthquake[] GetEarthquakes()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.geonames.org/");
            var response = client.GetAsync("earthquakesJSON?north=44.1&south=-9.9&east=-22.4&west=55.2&username=bertt").Result;
            var earthquakesJson = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
            var rootobject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Rootobject>(earthquakesJson);
            return rootobject.earthquakes;
        }
    }

geonames models

    public class Rootobject
    {
        public Earthquake[] earthquakes { get; set; }
    }

    public class Earthquake
    {
        public string eqid { get; set; }
        public float magnitude { get; set; }
        public float lng { get; set; }
        public string src { get; set; }
        public string datetime { get; set; }
        public float depth { get; set; }
        public float lat { get; set; }
    }

Mainpage Windows 8

    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
        {
            var names = new GeonamesApi().GetEarthquakes();
        }
    }