World Pulse
85 alerts are active worldwide right now from feeds that cover the whole planet: 0 tropical cyclones, 24 volcanoes above normal alert level, 2 rivers forecast above their highest level in a year, and 59 significant earthquakes in the last 24 hours. Severe-weather warnings are counted separately because only two parts of the world publish them.
Continuous monitoring began 9 August 2026. These counters show what we have recorded since then, not everything that happened.
Alerts in force worldwide
Every panel below comes from a feed that covers the whole planet, which is why these four are added together into the headline figure and the weather warnings further down are not.
Tropical cyclones 0
US National Hurricane Center — Atlantic and eastern Pacific, updated on every advisory.
No active storms. For much of the year this is the normal state, not a gap.
Volcanoes above normal 24
USGS alert levels and the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program — worldwide. Last 21 days, because the Smithsonian reports weekly; each volcano is counted once, however many reports it had.
Showing the 12 most severe of 24.
Rivers above their yearly high 2
GloFAS via Open-Meteo — 45 major rivers across six continents. These are forecasts, not observations, and each river point is counted once.
Significant earthquakes, 24h 59
USGS, EMSC and national networks — global. "Significant" means the shaking, felt reports or PAGER impact rating put it above routine.
Showing the 12 most severe of 59.
Severe weather — and why it sits apart
392 severe or extreme weather warnings are in force across 7 countries in the last 24 hours.
These are not in the headline number, on purpose. Official severe-weather warnings are published as machine-readable feeds by the United States, by the 38 European countries in Meteoalarm, and by only a handful of other national weather services (19 published in the last two weeks). Adding them to a global figure would produce a number that climbs when it storms in Italy and cannot move at all when it storms in Bangladesh.
That is not a flaw in those feeds. They are excellent. It is a fact about which governments publish, and it is the same fact the rest of this site is built around.
What this page cannot see
26% of everything recorded today is in hazard categories with no official real-time feed anywhere in the world — building collapses, road, rail, air and maritime accidents, fires, blasts, stampedes.
Those records exist only because a journalist wrote something. So this page is quietest about exactly the places where local media is thinnest, and a low reading is never proof that a quiet day happened there.
Why there is no single score
A tidy 0–100 number for the state of the world was the original plan here. Measuring the data first ruled it out.
Over a recent two-day sample, every globally uniform source combined produced 84 records. The two regional weather feeds produced 425. A score blending them is an index of American and European weather with a global label; a score excluding them rests on a few dozen records and swings daily.
So each figure here is reported on its own terms, with its coverage written next to it. That is less quotable and more true.
Satellite fire detections
NASA FIRMS — global, and the one hazard where satellite coverage does not care about borders.
1,065 fire clusters recorded in the last 24 hours. Only clusters large enough to matter are kept; individual hotspots are merged.