About Earth Live
Earth Live turns the whole planet into a live, explorable map — every earthquake, storm, wildfire and weather system, rendered on an interactive 3D globe the moment it happens.
What it is
Most of what's happening on Earth right now is public knowledge — the USGS tracks every earthquake, NASA logs natural events, NOAA watches every hurricane, weather models cover every coordinate. But that data is scattered across a dozen scientific websites most people never visit. Earth Live brings it together on one beautiful, real-time globe that anyone can open in a browser.
Where the data comes from
Earth Live is a visualization of official, public data — it doesn't generate or predict anything of its own. Sources:
- USGS — United States Geological Survey, global earthquake network and PAGER impact alerts
- US Tsunami Warning Centers (NOAA) — official tsunami bulletins via tsunami.gov
- GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, a cooperation framework of the United Nations and the European Commission (impact alerts for cyclones, floods, volcanoes, wildfires, droughts)
- NASA EONET — Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (wildfires, storms, volcanoes, ice)
- NOAA / National Hurricane Center — tropical cyclones, forecast cones, watches & warnings
- MET Norway — current weather, 7-day forecasts and sunrise/sunset (data licensed under CC BY 4.0)
- GeoNames — place names for search and location labels (CC BY 4.0)
- AWS Terrain Tiles — elevation and sea depth (public open dataset)
- OpenAQ — air-quality measurements from the nearest monitoring station
- NASA FIRMS — active fire detections from the VIIRS satellites
- NASA GIBS — satellite imagery overlays (true colour, aerosols, IMERG rainfall)
- NOAA SWPC — OVATION aurora forecast and the planetary Kp index
- NOAA GML — daily Mauna Loa CO₂ measurements
- NASA/JPL CNEOS — fireballs and asteroid close approaches
- EUMETNET – MeteoAlarm — official weather warnings from European national weather services, each credited on the warning (CC BY 4.0)
- US National Weather Service — severe and extreme weather alerts
- GDELT Project — world news index (gdeltproject.org); headlines link to the original publishers
- World Health Organization — Disease Outbreak News
- NOAA Coral Reef Watch — coral bleaching heat-stress alerts
- The Space Devs — Launch Library 2 rocket launches; Spaceflight News API — space headlines
- CelesTrak — ISS orbital elements for pass predictions
- where the ISS at? — live International Space Station position
Who makes it
Earth Live is an independent, indie-made project based in Croatia, EU — made with care, shipped solo, and improved constantly.
How it's built
A browser-native WebGL globe, fed by live public APIs, hosted on Vercel with a Supabase backend for accounts. No app to install; it works on phones, tablets and desktops.
Earth Live is a visualization and educational tool. It is not an official forecasting service and must not be used for emergency or safety-critical decisions — always follow your local authorities and official warning services.