Data Sources & Attribution
Every piece of live disaster data on this site comes from the sources below, and each one is labelled by what kind of thing it publishes — an official warning, a scientific measurement, an automated detection or a humanitarian report. Those are not interchangeable, and only one of them is an instruction. We display each record with its source and link back to the original report. None of the live data is created by us.
| Source | What it publishes | Last answered | Status |
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EMSC — European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
Measured by
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Instrumental earthquake measurements: magnitude, depth and location. | 37 seconds ago | ● answering |
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GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
Official source
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Global alert levels for disasters likely to need international response. | 4 days ago |
○ paused after errors
Repeated errors, so we have paused this source and will retry automatically. Its events may be incomplete meanwhile.
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MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET)
Official source
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Warnings from 38 European national weather services, on a shared awareness scale. | 22 seconds ago | ● answering |
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NASA EONET — Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker
Where this came from
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Natural events curated from satellite observation. | 11 minutes ago | ● answering |
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NASA FIRMS — Fire Information for Resource Management System
Where this came from
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Satellite thermal anomalies - hot pixels, which may or may not be wildfires. | 11 minutes ago | ● answering |
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NOAA / National Weather Service
Official source
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Official warnings, watches and advisories for the United States. | 37 seconds ago | ● answering |
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NOAA National Hurricane Center
Measured by
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Position, sustained wind speed, central pressure and movement for every tropical cyclone currently under advisory. | 7 minutes ago | ● answering |
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NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers (NTWC and PTWC)
Official source
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Tsunami warnings, advisories and watches issued by the US National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers. | 2 minutes ago | ● answering |
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Open-Meteo
Where this came from
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Weather forecasts per country page. Free for non-commercial use, no key. | not polled | Requested when a page needs it, not on a schedule — so there is nothing to be late. |
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ReliefWeb (UN OCHA)
Reported by
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Humanitarian situation reporting and response coordination. | 11 minutes ago | ● answering |
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
Measured by
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Instrumental earthquake measurements: magnitude, depth and location. | 38 seconds ago | ● answering |
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USGS Volcano Hazards Program
Official source
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Volcano Alert Levels and aviation colour codes for volcanoes above their background state. | 6 minutes ago | ● answering |
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WMO Alert Hub (national weather services)
Official source
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Official warnings from national meteorological and hydrological services worldwide, in Common Alerting Protocol. | 22 seconds ago | ● answering |
Update frequency
- Earthquakes (USGS, EMSC): source feeds update ~every minute; we sync every 10 minutes.
- Multi-hazard alerts (GDACS): updated as events develop, typically every 15–30 minutes.
- Natural events (NASA EONET): curated feed, updated multiple times daily.
- US weather alerts (NOAA/NWS): near real-time; we sync every 10 minutes.
- Fire detections (NASA FIRMS): satellite passes several times daily.
- Disaster reports (ReliefWeb): updated as humanitarian reports publish.
Every event page shows its own last updated timestamp. If a source becomes unavailable, we keep serving the last-known dataset and label its age.
The status column above is measured, not declared. It is the time since that source last answered us successfully, judged against how often that particular source publishes — twenty minutes of silence is nothing from a satellite feed that refreshes a few times a day, and a real problem from an earthquake feed polled every ten minutes. Until 2026-09-02 this column showed a configuration flag instead, which meant it read “live” for a source that had not answered in two days.
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