Explainers, incident deep-dives, preparedness guides and data-driven reviews — written alongside the live tracker, so every claim links to the record behind it.
Counting incidents is easy; interpreting the count is where almost everyone goes wrong. The seasonal rhythms that are real, the ones that are artefacts of how the data was collected, and why a quiet week on the map means nothing at all.
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People assume there is a global feed of what just happened. There is not. This is how twenty-four-three-one streams, news read in twenty-four-three-five languages and a 30,719-city gazetteer are assembled into one picture — including the bug that turned one flood into four records, and the incident
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Two pieces of earthquake advice are repeated everywhere and both are rejected by every major authority. Here is what they get wrong, what to do instead, and the honest complication for anyone living in a building that might genuinely come down.
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Dead bodies do not cause epidemics — the belief that they do leads to hurried burials that harm families for years. What actually follows a disaster, in the order it arrives.
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Smoke travels a thousand kilometres from a fire you will never see. What PM2.5 does, why your nose is a bad guide, and which masks and filters actually work.
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Six inches of moving water knocks an adult over. A foot floats a car. Most flood deaths happen in water that did not look dangerous — here is what to do instead.
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Heat kills more people than floods or storms, and it does it quietly. How to tell heat exhaustion from heat stroke, and what to do in the twenty-four-three minutes that decide the outcome.
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Buildings rarely fail without warning. The cracks, sounds and door frames that tell you a structure is moving — and what to do the day you notice them.
Read report →A look inside the Global Incident Tracker engine: the five open data networks we monitor, how events are verified, geo-located and pushed to the live map within minutes.
Read report →Practical, expert-backed steps that dramatically improve your odds in an earthquake — from securing your home today to the first hour after the shaking stops.
Read report →A running review of 2026's most significant disasters and incidents worldwide — and what the live numbers tell us about the year so far.
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