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Earthquakes
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · earthquake.usgs.gov
US government work, public domain
Worldwide earthquakes, ShakeMaps, PAGER impact estimates, fault motion (moment tensors), the earthquake catalog since 1900 (“on this day”), plate-boundary lines
GEOFON, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences · geofon.gfz.de
Worldwide earthquakes
Event locations were obtained from the GEOFON program of the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences.
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) · jma.go.jp
Public Data License (Version 1.0), compatible with CC BY 4.0
Japan earthquakes, tsunami bulletins, volcanic alert levels, weather warnings; Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre advisories (Asia and the West Pacific); Himawari satellite imagery (via NASA GIBS)
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency website. Edited by EarthWatch 24-7.
GeoNet · geonet.org.nz
New Zealand earthquakes and volcanic alert levels
We acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet programme and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science, LINZ, NEMA and MBIE for providing data.
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) · terremoti.ingv.it
Italy earthquakes
Geoscience Australia · earthquakes.ga.gov.au
Australia and region earthquakes
© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia).
Earthquakes Canada, Natural Resources Canada · earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca
Canada earthquakes
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), Spain · ign.es
Spain and nearby earthquakes
© Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
Weather warnings
NOAA National Weather Service · weather.gov
US government work, public domain
US warnings, watches and advisories; radar imagery
Meteoalarm (EUMETNET) · meteoalarm.org
Warnings for 38 European countries
Data provided by EUMETNET members.
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) · weather.gc.ca
Canada weather alerts
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), Mexico · smn.conagua.gob.mx
Mexico weather warnings
© Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN).
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), Brazil · inmet.gov.br
Reproduction allowed with the source cited (INMET terms of use)
Brazil weather warnings
Fonte: INMET.
PAGASA, Philippines · pagasa.dost.gov.ph
Philippines flood advisories and cyclone alerts
© Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA SACHET), India · sachet.ndma.gov.in
Public domain (as stated in the feed)
India alerts
Hong Kong Observatory · hko.gov.hk (via DATA.GOV.HK)
DATA.GOV.HK terms: free use, including commercial
Hong Kong warnings
Environment Agency (England) · check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk
England flood alerts and warnings
© Environment Agency.
Department of Emergency Management, Barbados · dem.gov.bb
Barbados alerts
© Department of Emergency Management.
Saint Lucia Meteorological Services
Public domain (as stated in the feed)
Saint Lucia alerts
UNGRD & IDEAM, Colombia · gestiondelriesgo.gov.co
Dominio público (as stated in the feed)
Colombia alerts (wildfire risk, floods, landslides)
MetService (Meteorological Service of New Zealand) · metservice.com
CC BY 4.0 (as stated in the feed)
New Zealand watches and warnings
Copyright Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited. Licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0.
Storms, floods, fires and other events
NOAA National Hurricane Center & Tsunami Warning Centers · nhc.noaa.gov · tsunami.gov
US government work, public domain
Hurricanes, forecast cones and tracks, public advisories (location, warnings, rain and surge); tsunami messages
Joint Typhoon Warning Center (US Navy) · metoc.navy.mil/jtwc
US government work, public domain
Typhoon and cyclone forecast tracks (West Pacific, Indian Ocean, Southern Hemisphere)
National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), WFIGS current wildfire incidents · data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com
US government open data, no use restrictions
US wildfire containment, cause, crews and mapped perimeters (spoken reports and event pages)
GDACS, Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (UN and European Commission) · gdacs.org
Worldwide cyclones, floods, droughts, volcanoes, wildfires; impact reports (damage, deaths, evacuations); people within reach of storm winds
Copernicus Emergency Management Service · mapping.emergency.copernicus.eu
Copernicus free, full and open data policy
Named floods and wildfires
© European Union, Copernicus Emergency Management Service.
NASA · nasa.gov
NASA open data, no restrictions
EONET natural events; FIRMS fire hotspots; GIBS satellite imagery (VIIRS and MODIS daily pictures on the cards and event pages; IMERG rainfall from the GPM satellites); Blue Marble globe image and map tiles; Landsat WELD true-color mosaic (NASA/USGS, the close-up map outside the United States); ISS trajectory; JPL Small-Body Database (asteroid orbits)
Fire hotspots: NASA FIRMS (LANCE), VIIRS NOAA-20.
USGS The National Map · usgs.gov
US government work, public domain
Orthoimagery (USDA NAIP aerial photos) for the close-up map of the United States
GeoNames · geonames.org
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Town and village names on the globe and the map when zoomed in
Place names: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
USGS Volcano Hazards Program · volcanoes.usgs.gov
US government work, public domain
US volcano alert levels and aviation color codes
Forecasts, Earth’s vital signs and launches
MET Norway, Locationforecast 2.0 · api.met.no
Weather forecasts for any place on Earth: the next hours and days, and the world weather list
Data from MET Norway.
NOAA Aviation Weather Center · aviationweather.gov
US government work, public domain
Live weather station reports (METAR) from about 5,000 airports worldwide: the measured temperature, wind, humidity and sky right now, used to correct the forecasts; volcanic ash clouds worldwide (international SIGMETs from the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres’ analyses): the volcano, the cloud’s outline, its height and drift
NOAA National Weather Service, forecast API · api.weather.gov
US government work, open data, free for any use
Hourly temperature and rain-chance forecasts for places in the United States
NOAA Storm Prediction Center, Weather Prediction Center & National Water Prediction Service · spc.noaa.gov · wpc.ncep.noaa.gov · water.noaa.gov
US government work, public domain
Severe thunderstorm outlooks and storm reports; excessive rainfall (flash flood) outlooks; river gauges in flood
NOAA satellites: GOES-19, Hazard Mapping System, Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, National Data Buoy Center · star.nesdis.noaa.gov · HMS · ndbc.noaa.gov
US government work, public domain
Live full-disk view of Earth; wildfire smoke outlines; volcanic ash advisories for the Americas; wave heights from ocean buoys; DART deep-ocean tsunami buoys after big earthquakes
NOAA nowCOAST, NESDIS & NCEP: live clouds and radar · nowcoast.noaa.gov · MRMS
US government work, public domain (the global mosaic includes imagery from EUMETSAT's Meteosat and JMA's Himawari, as distributed by NOAA)
Live clouds on the globe: the Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery (GMGSI, hourly) and GOES infrared (every 5 minutes); live US radar (MRMS reflectivity, every few minutes); lightning strike density (15-minute maps from NOAA's Ocean Prediction Center, a NOAA-derived product cleared for public distribution, from the NLDN and GLD360 networks)
Environment and Climate Change Canada, MSC GeoMet · eccc-msc.github.io/open-data
ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence (commercial use and redistribution permitted). Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Live radar over Canada: the 1 km North American rain-rate composite, every 6 minutes, recoloured to NOAA's reflectivity scale
Japan Meteorological Agency · jma.go.jp
JMA Terms of Use (Public Data License 1.0, compatible with CC BY 4.0). Source: Japan Meteorological Agency website; the imagery is re-projected and recoloured here
Live radar over Japan and nearby seas: the high-resolution precipitation nowcast analysis, every 5 minutes, recoloured to NOAA's reflectivity scale
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) · dwd.de open data
CC BY 4.0. Datenbasis: Deutscher Wetterdienst, recoloured here
Live radar over Germany: the RV composite (1 km, every 5 minutes), recoloured to NOAA's reflectivity scale
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) · ilmatieteenlaitos.fi open data
CC BY 4.0. Source: Finnish Meteorological Institute, recoloured here
Live radar over Finland: the reflectivity composite, every 5 minutes, in NOAA's reflectivity scale
SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) · smhi.se open data
CC BY 4.0. Source: SMHI; re-projected and recoloured here
Live radar over Sweden: the national composite (2 km, every 5 minutes), in NOAA's reflectivity scale
NOAA HRRR model (NCEP) & MRMS radar: the rain forecast for the next two hours · rapidrefresh.noaa.gov · NOMADS
US government work, public domain
Rain radar loops and "rain at your place" (US): the radar's own motion for the first hour, the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model blended in toward two hours
NOAA CO-OPS Tides & Currents · tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
US government work, public domain
Tide predictions (next highs and lows) for coastal places in My Area
USGS "Did You Feel It?" & aftershock forecasts · earthquake.usgs.gov
US government work, public domain
Maps of where people felt big earthquakes; USGS operational aftershock forecasts on quake cards
NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability · airquality.weather.gov
US government work, public domain
Hourly PM2.5 and wildfire smoke forecasts for places in the US and Canada (My Area)
Live webcams: USGS volcano observatories (HVO, AVO, CVO, YVO), USGS river cameras (HIVIS) & National Park Service · usgs.gov · HIVIS · nps.gov
U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service images: US government works, public domain (no claim to original U.S. Government works)
The latest still image from cameras near volcanoes and rivers, on their cards
NASA: live video from the International Space Station, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR · NASA on YouTube · sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov · epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA media, not copyrighted (NASA media usage guidelines); the station video is linked to NASA's own YouTube stream
The Sun right now on the Sun's card; the station's live video and a whole-Earth picture on the Space Station's card
GeoNames · geonames.org
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
The names of the world's towns, for naming the spot you tap and the place you follow (the United States uses the National Weather Service's names)
NOAA National Data Buoy Center BuoyCAMs · ndbc.noaa.gov
US government work, public domain
The latest views from cameras on ocean buoys near storms, on storm cards
EPA AirNow · airnow.gov
US government work, public domain
Air quality index of US reporting areas
Air quality data are preliminary and subject to change (AirNow, US EPA and partner agencies).
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Pulse · pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
Daily global air and sea-surface temperature (ERA5)
Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of it.
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory & Climate Prediction Center · gml.noaa.gov · cpc.ncep.noaa.gov
US government work, public domain
Carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory; the Oceanic Niño Index (El Niño and La Niña)
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Sea Ice Index · nsidc.org
Free use with credit
Daily Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent and maps
Fetterer, F., K. Knowles, W. N. Meier, M. Savoie, and A. K. Windnagel. Sea Ice Index, Version 4. NSIDC.
U.S. Drought Monitor · droughtmonitor.unl.edu
Free use with credit
Weekly US drought statistics and map
The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Launch Library 2, The Space Devs · thespacedevs.com
Free API, credit to The Space Devs
Upcoming rocket launches
Launch data: The Space Devs (Launch Library 2).
Space
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center & GOES · swpc.noaa.gov
US government work, public domain
Kp index, solar wind, flares, aurora forecast, Sun images
NASA DONKI (CCMC) and JPL CNEOS · DONKI · cneos.jpl.nasa.gov
NASA open data, no restrictions
Coronal mass ejections; fireballs; asteroid close approaches
SOHO (ESA & NASA) · soho.nascom.nasa.gov
Free use with credit
LASCO coronagraph images (live, and pictures of each CME rendered by NASA's Helioviewer)
Courtesy of SOHO/LASCO consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
Maps, software and voice
Plate boundaries · made by EarthWatch 24-7 from USGS data (public domain), with lines drawn by us where USGS has none
Natural Earth · naturalearthdata.com
Public domain
Country outlines; town, city and sea names used by the spoken spotlights
globe.gl, three-globe, three.js
MIT License
Umami (visitor statistics, on our own server)
MIT License
Kokoro-82M (narration voice; on the website, also the Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese voices)
Apache License 2.0
MADLAD-400 (Google) · translates the website’s live reports for browsers without their own translator
Apache License 2.0
Thorsten-Voice German Kokoro (the website's German voice) by Thorsten Müller, fine-tuned from Kokoro-82M with the kikiri-tts recipe
Apache License 2.0 · recordings: Thorsten-Voice dataset, CC0
Piper text-to-speech
MIT License
Bengali voice: trained on Google’s crowd-sourced Bengali speech data (OpenSLR 37), CC BY-SA 4.0, and the CMU Indic voices (copyright © 2009–2017 Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute), fine-tuned from a LibriTTS-R voice (Koizumi et al., CC BY 4.0).
JetBrains Mono
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Theme music · composed and synthesized by EarthWatch 24-7 (our own work, used on the stream, in our videos and on this site)
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