Major events — last 21 days drag the globe · click a ping or a row · auto-rotates when idle
What qualifies as major (thresholds, not vibes): earthquakes M ≥ 5.9 — 193/yr globally from this site's own catalog, one every ~1.9 days (~11 in a 21-day window); anything smaller would bury the map in noise. Cyclones, floods, volcanoes, wildfires, droughts and landslides at GDACS orange or red alert — GDACS's alert score is calibrated to expected humanitarian impact (greens excluded) — plus tropical storms at hurricane strength (≥ 64 kt, NASA EONET) with precise positions. If GDACS is unreachable, ReliefWeb's current-disaster list fills in, pinned at the affected country's centroid. Duplicate reports of the same event across sources are merged. See METHODOLOGY § 12b.
Live pulse
Checking global seismicity…
Checking disaster alerts…
What this page is — and is not
- Situational awareness, not statistics. This page shows what open live feeds report right now. Nothing here feeds the probability model — the Overview statistics come only from the validated historical record (METHODOLOGY § 12b documents the separation).
- Sources: USGS FDSN (earthquakes, public domain) and GDACS (EC/UN alert levels), with ReliefWeb as automatic fallback. Each feed degrades independently — an unreachable source shows a status line and nothing else changes.
- Globe geography: Natural Earth 110m coastlines (public domain).