The Planet's Live Pulse.

A disaster is caused by nature: an earthquake, flood, storm or wildfire. An accident is caused by people or machines: a crash, fire, explosion or building collapse. A warning is an official alert that something may still happen. On the live map a disaster is a round mark, an accident a square mark and a warning an empty ring, so they never look alike. Browse disasters, accidents or official warnings.

Global Incident Tracker is a live monitoring platform that records incidents worldwide in real time — from major natural disasters to smaller local events like building collapses, blasts, fires and road accidents. We aggregate twenty-four independent streams: the USGS, EMSC, BMKG, GeoNet and INGV seismic networks, the UN's GDACS alert system, NASA EONET and FIRMS satellite observations, WHO, WHO Africa and European CDC outbreak bulletins, US National Weather Service alerts, Meteoalarm European weather warnings, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, NOAA space-weather alerts, openFEMA disaster declarations, GDELT global news monitoring, the Wikipedia current-events record, moderated public reports, and our own rotating sweep of local-language news across 79 countries. See exactly which source covers which incident type.

"Official" means the record came straight from a government or scientific agency such as USGS, EMSC or a national weather service. "News report" means it was picked up from local media and has not been confirmed by an agency yet. The first line of every report says what happened and where in plain English; the original headline, in its own language, is shown under it.

Our servers pull fresh data around the clock — typically every 10 minutes — and this map auto-refreshes every 3 minutes. Earthquake reports usually appear within minutes of the USGS or EMSC publishing them.

International feeds are good at earthquakes and cyclones and useless at a wall collapse in Faisalabad or a market fire in Lagos. So we run our own rotating sweep of local media in local languages across 79 countries — Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and more — and geocode the headlines against a built-in city gazetteer. When several sources report the same event, we merge them into one record with a higher confidence score rather than publishing duplicates.

All 38 categories listed on our incident types page: earthquakes, floods, wildfires, cyclones, storms, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, droughts, heat and cold waves, landslides, avalanches, tsunamis, building and bridge collapses, explosions, fires, gas leaks, chemical spills, nuclear incidents, mining and industrial accidents, road, rail, air and maritime accidents, stampedes, drownings, power outages, cyber attacks, epidemics, famine, conflict, terror attacks, shootings and riots.

Yes. Every record gets a permanent, detailed page showing its exact position on a map, severity rating, timestamp, data source, an explanation of that hazard type and specific safety guidance — plus links to related incidents nearby.

Yes — all 195 countries have their own live tracking page with a national map, today's incidents, counters and a type breakdown. Start from the Countries page.

Yes. The records we compile are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, so you may use them commercially or non-commercially as long as you credit us with a link. Our JSON endpoints are open and keyless: /api/incidents.php?format=list&days=1 and /api/stats.php. Upstream data keeps its own terms — see the open data page.