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 off one open wire, local names and long weekends, today marked, and Easter computed on the page for any year. Weather The forecast, and the warnings 48 hours of temperature drawn and seven days barred for any city by name, National Weather Service warnings at US points, a 42-city world board. Conditions New York: air, water and sun New York by measurement — the air, the wind, the river, the ground, the sun’s weather and the sky, each figure off the wire its own desk reads. Windy The live weather console Current conditions and eleven instruments, 24 hours, seven days out, forty years of archive, satellite channels and the severe-weather wire. Quake Earthquakes, in the last hour Every event USGS has posted in the past hour, day or week, drawn as it arrives — newest first, ringed by magnitude, counted by band and depth. Hurricane The storm, while it is happening Every active cyclone in the National Hurricane Center’s own file, read live: wind, pressure, position and movement, on a drawn basin map. Tides High and low, at your beach Any of NOAA’s tide-prediction stations: the next high and low with a countdown, today’s table, and the six-minute prediction drawn as a curve. Rivers River levels, and what is flooding Live hydrographs for 75 USGS gauges: seven days of stage and discharge, with NOAA’s action, minor, moderate and major flood stages ruled across. Aurora Whether the sky will do anything The planetary K-index on a drawn dial and NOAA’s OVATION forecast painted whole — 65,160 probability cells over a hand-drawn graticule. Space Launches, and where the station is Every upcoming launch off Launch Library 2, counted down only where the T-0 is honestly known, and the ISS crossing a hand-drawn world map. ATLAS The whole planet, drawn Every country, river, lake and city on a map this site draws itself — no tiles, no provider — with areas measured off the polygons on screen. ORBIT The live sky, drawn The station, the brightest hundred and the whole Starlink shell on a drawn globe, every position computed in your browser from orbital elements. Flights What is in the air right now Live aircraft positions over fifteen world cities, drawn with trails and range rings, routed through the estate’s own relay so no key is needed. Transit When the next train actually comes The New York subway board: any of 496 stations, the next trains both ways off the MTA’s own realtime feed, decoded in the browser with no key. Traffic Seventy-six cities, and how fast they move The twelve largest cities of every continent: road speeds drawn live for New York and Madrid, alerts everywhere else, picked off a world map. Grid What is powering Europe, right now Any of 15 European countries, its last 48 hours of electricity drawn fuel by fuel, with the current generation mix live as a proportional bar. Clockwork World clocks, and where the sun is Drawn clocks for 64 cities with daylight tinted from the sun’s real altitude, NOAA sunrise and twilight, and an orrery scrubbable fifty years. Sensor The instruments already in your hand The phone’s own accelerometer and magnetometer read from the browser — a spirit level, a compass and a plumb line, with the readings kept on the phone. The Moon Tonight’s moon, computed The near side as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mapped it, lit by arithmetic — true phase, the terminator, distance and the next four phases. Wildfire Every active US fire, NIFC live Every active US wildland fire in NIFC’s WFIGS layer, read browser-direct — acres, containment, cause and date, biggest first, on a drawn coastline. Airports Which airports are delayed, right now The FAA’s own airspace status file as a board that goes amber and red — ground stops, delay programmes, closures with their NOTAM, 119 airports drawn on a map. Travel Disruptions Every disrupted U.S. airport, right now The FAA’s live airspace status ranked worst first: ground stops, delay programs, delays and closures, each with how long it has been in effect, on a map and by state. Asteroids Every near miss, counted down honestly Every object passing inside 0.05 au in the coming weeks, off JPL’s own table — miss distance in lunar distances, plus the fireball log on a world map. Volcano US volcanoes above normal Every US volcano the USGS holds above NORMAL / GREEN — code, level and the observatory’s own notice — ringed on a drawn coastline. Bikes Where the bikes and the docks are, now Citi Bike by default, any GBFS system by choice — every station's free bikes and docks, emptiest and fullest ranked, on a map drawn from the feed. Gleason The 1892 flat-earth map, deep-zoomed, measured against the globe Alexander Gleason's New Standard Map of the World, Buffalo 1892, from the Boston Public Library's scan: zoom anywhere, find a place, and measure any route both as a straight line on his paper and as the true distance on the Earth.

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.

Live earthquakes, storms and NOAA tides

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

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