Deserialize JSON to objects: having trouble with my own project

Question

I'm trying to write a console application to send a GET request to an API and parse out the results, similar to what was shown in the course, but I'm stuck. The API I'm using is the USGS Earthquake Catalog: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/ It returns data on earthquakes in a given date range in JSON format. I've got the Webclient query and am getting the results I should be seeing. However, the response is a bit different to the example shown in the course, so I'm stuck on how to create the list and deserialize the objects.

What I have so far:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Net; using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace Earthquakes { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { GetEarthquakes(); }

    public static void GetEarthquakes()
    {
        var webClient = new WebClient();
        byte[] earthquakeBytes = webClient.DownloadData("https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&starttime=2020-08-01&endtime=2020-08-02");
        var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
        using (var stream = new MemoryStream(earthquakeBytes))
        using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
        using (var jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(reader))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(serializer.Deserialize<Properties>(jsonReader).Magnitude);
            Console.WriteLine(serializer.Deserialize<Properties>(jsonReader).Place);
        }

    }
}

}

And my class file:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace Earthquakes {

public class EarthquakeFeed
{
    public string type { get; set; }
    public Metadata metadata { get; set; }
    public Feature[] features { get; set; }
    public float[] bbox { get; set; } 
}

public class Metadata
{
    public long generated { get; set; }
    public string url { get; set; }
    public string title { get; set; }
    public int status { get; set; }
    public string api { get; set; }
    public int count { get; set; }
}

public class Feature
{
    public string type { get; set; }
    public Properties properties { get; set; }
    public Geometry geometry { get; set; }
    public string id { get; set; }
}

public class Properties
{
    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "mag")]
    public float Magnitude { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "place")]
    public string Place { get; set; }
    public long time { get; set; }
    public long updated { get; set; }
    public object tz { get; set; }
    public string url { get; set; }
    public string detail { get; set; }
    public int? felt { get; set; }
    public float? cdi { get; set; }
    public float? mmi { get; set; }
    public string alert { get; set; }
    public string status { get; set; }
    public int tsunami { get; set; }
    public int sig { get; set; }
    public string net { get; set; }
    public string code { get; set; }
    public string ids { get; set; }
    public string sources { get; set; }
    public string types { get; set; }
    public int? nst { get; set; }
    public float? dmin { get; set; }
    public float rms { get; set; }
    public float? gap { get; set; }
    public string magType { get; set; }
    public string type { get; set; }
    public string title { get; set; }
}

public class Geometry
{
    public string type { get; set; }
    public float[] coordinates { get; set; }
}

}

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Deserialize JSON to objects: having trouble with my own project