Live earthquakes, storms and NOAA tides

A monitoring station
for one planet.

Instruments pointed at the same planet: the air over a city, the storms crossing it, the ground moving under it, the rivers and tides at its edges, the sky above it and the power being burned to keep the lights on. Most of them read a public scientific feed directly — the national weather services, the USGS, NOAA, the tide stations, the river gauges, the grid operators — and draw what actually came back.

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Holidays Every day off, everywhere Every public holiday in about 110 countries, local names first, long weekends worked out, and Easter computed for any year. Weather The forecast, and the warnings Any city’s next 48 hours and seven days drawn from Open-Meteo, with National Weather Service warnings at US points. Conditions New York: air, water and sun One live figure from each of the site’s physical-world desks on a single New York board, every tile one click from its desk. Windy Fifteen days ahead, back to 1940 Conditions now and eleven instruments for any place or US ZIP, with live satellite imagery and the severe-weather wire. Quake Seismic events, as USGS posts them Every earthquake USGS has posted in the past hour, day or week, newest first, ringed by magnitude on a drawn world map. Hurricane The storm, as it happens Every active tropical cyclone in the National Hurricane Center’s file, with wind, pressure and movement on a drawn basin map. Tides High and low, at your beach The next high and low tide at any NOAA station with a countdown, today’s table, and the predicted curve against the gauge. Rivers Water levels, and what is flooding Seven days of flow and stage at 75 USGS river gauges in 38 states, with NOAA’s flood stages ruled across each chart. Aurora Whether the sky will do anything NOAA’s space weather live: the Kp index on a dial, the OVATION aurora forecast painted whole and the GOES X-ray flux. Space Every launch, and the ISS Every upcoming rocket launch off Launch Library 2, counted down in your timezone, and the ISS crossing a drawn world map. ATLAS The whole planet, drawn A zoomable map of 242 countries drawn by the site itself, each with its figures and World Bank indicators, plus place search. ORBIT The live sky, drawn The space station, the hundred brightest satellites and the Starlink shell on a drawn globe, with tonight’s passes over you. Flights What is in the air right now Every aircraft the ADS-B network hears over fifteen world cities, drawn on a radar scope with trails, nearest first. Transit When the next train comes The next subway trains both ways at any of New York’s 496 stations, off the MTA’s own countdown feed every 30 seconds. Traffic How fast the roads are moving now Live road speeds for 22 of 85 world cities, with weather alerts and road visibility for the rest, read from public feeds. Grid What is powering Europe, right now The last 48 hours of electricity, fuel by fuel, for 15 European countries, beside Great Britain’s carbon intensity by region. Clockwork World time, and where the sun is Drawn clocks for 100 cities tinted by the real sun, with sunrise, twilight, the moon’s phase and an orrery of the planets. Sensor Your phone, as a level and compass Six instruments that read your own phone, from a spirit level and compass to a sound meter, and record nothing. The Moon Tonight’s phase, computed The true phase lit on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s map of the near side, with the next full moon and the year’s eclipses. Wildfire What is burning, and how contained Every active US wildland fire in NIFC’s live feed, biggest first, with acres, containment and cause on a drawn map. Airshed The AQI at your ZIP code, read live The Air Quality Index at a US ZIP code, read off EPA AirNow’s monitors, with the nearest monitors and the agency’s forecast. Airports Ground stops and delays, right now The FAA’s airspace status as a board of 119 airports, ground stops and closures in red, delays in amber, in the FAA’s words. Travel Disruptions Flight delays and how long they run Every US airport the FAA has flagged, worst first, with its reason and how long it has lasted, on a map and by state. Asteroids Every near miss, counted down honestly Every object passing within 0.05 au of Earth in the coming weeks, off JPL’s own table, with the fireball log on a world map. Volcano US alerts above normal Every US volcano USGS holds above normal, in the observatory’s own words on a drawn map, plus the Smithsonian’s weekly report. Bikes Every dock, and what is on it Free bikes and docks at every station of any bike-share system, Citi Bike first, the emptiest and fullest ranked, on a map. Gleason A flat world against the globe Gleason’s 1892 flat-earth map at full resolution: zoom anywhere, find a place, and measure a route on his paper and the globe. Cybertaxi Where to charge an EV 1,065 EV charging stations in twelve US metros from OpenStreetMap, searchable by operator and plug, sorted by distance from you. The Sun Dawn to dusk, for any place Sunrise, sunset, the three twilights and golden hour for any place and day, worked out in your browser from NOAA’s equations. Water Who drinks safely, country by country Water stress, safe drinking water and renewable supply for 160 countries on one map, each figure with its source and year. Easter Both churches’ dates Western and Orthodox Easter for any year from 1583, computed on the page, with the feasts that move with it and 201 year pages. True Size Drag a country and watch it shrink Drag any country across a Mercator map and it is redrawn at the scale of its new latitude, from Natural Earth outlines.

Overview

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tides and rivers, read live from the agencies.

The Earth room holds the instruments labs.llc keeps pointed at the planet: the ground, the weather, the water, the sky and what is moving through it. Most of them read a public scientific feed and draw what came back. Quake takes the USGS earthquake summary feeds for the past hour, day or week. Hurricane reads the National Hurricane Center’s own active-storm file. Tides reads NOAA’s tide-prediction stations, and Rivers reads USGS stream gauges with NOAA’s flood stages ruled across. Aurora reads NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, Volcano the USGS Hazard Notification System, Asteroids JPL’s close-approach table, Wildfire NIFC’s WFIGS layer and Airports the FAA’s airspace status file.

Each live desk fetches when it is opened and keeps reading while its tab is in view: Airports every two minutes; Quake, Hurricane, Aurora, Volcano and Wildfire every five; Tides, for the observed water level, every six; Weather every ten; Rivers every fifteen. Quake, Tides, Rivers, Aurora and Wildfire read their agencies straight from your browser; Hurricane, Airports and Asteroids go through a thin relay on this site, because those sources send no header that lets a browser read them directly. A few instruments compute rather than fetch: ORBIT works out satellite positions in the browser from orbital elements, The Moon lights its phase by arithmetic, Clockwork uses NOAA’s solar-position equations, and Sensor reads the phone’s own accelerometer and magnetometer.

What the room does not do is forecast on its own account. Where a figure looks forward — a weather forecast, NOAA’s aurora outlook, a tide prediction, an asteroid’s closest approach — it is the publisher’s figure, not this site’s, and the desk names who published it. When a feed is quiet or late, the panel says so rather than filling the gap. Every desk and instrument in the room is free to use, and reads its feed for whoever opens the page.

Live earthquakes, storms and NOAA tides

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tides and rivers, read live from the agencies.

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