Incident Watchlists
Pick the countries and kinds of incident you care about. We send new matches by email digest, push notification, or both — and only when something new has actually been recorded.
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How alerts work
- What is checked. Every 15 minutes, incidents recorded since the last check are compared with your countries, categories and minimum severity.
- When you hear. Matches wait for your chosen frequency, then arrive together as one digest or one push. Nothing new means no message.
- How long it takes. Alerts are not instant. Sources publish on their own schedules: earthquake agencies within minutes, weather warnings within the hour, news-based records a few hours after publication, and some humanitarian reports days later. We collect every 10 minutes, then your frequency applies. For immediate danger, follow your local authorities.
- No repeats. An incident is sent to a watchlist once per channel. When further reports of it arrive they join the same incident page instead of alerting you again, and a run of identical notices (one weather warning issued county by county) is shown as one line.
- What the labels mean. Each incident shows whether it is reported, officially recorded or corrected. The rules are on the methodology page; a count of reports is never treated as confirmation.
Coverage: what you can and cannot expect
Some categories have official real-time monitoring worldwide; others exist only in news reports, so small events in places with little coverage will be missed. Categories marked news-only in the watchlist form have no official feed anywhere.
| Category | Main sources |
|---|---|
| Air Crash | GDELT, national press, Wikipedia Investigation bodies publish months later, not in real time. |
| Avalanche | Meteoalarm, GDACS, news European warning services are good; most mountain ranges have nothing. |
| Bridge Collapse | GDELT, our harvester, national press |
| Building Collapse | GDELT, our harvester, national press, Wikipedia, public reports |
| Chemical Spill | GDELT, national press |
| Cold Wave | US NWS, Meteoalarm, national services (CAP), news |
| Conflict | GDELT, national press, Wikipedia Academic datasets (ACLED, UCDP) exist but are licensed and not real-time. |
| Cyber Attack | GDELT, national press |
| Cyclone / Hurricane | GDACS, NOAA NHC, US NWS, Meteoalarm, national services (CAP), NASA EONET NHC covers the Atlantic and eastern/central Pacific by name and intensity. |
| Drought | GDACS, NASA EONET, ReliefWeb, news Slow-onset, so a start date is a judgement rather than an observation. |
| Drowning | GDELT, our harvester, national press Almost entirely invisible. Most drownings are never reported anywhere. |
| Earthquake | USGS, EMSC, BMKG, GeoNet, INGV, GDACS The most complete real-time detection network humanity operates for anything. |
| Epidemic | WHO, WHO Africa, European CDC, news Official bulletins lag the outbreak, sometimes by weeks. |
| Explosion | GDELT, our harvester, national press |
| Famine / Food Crisis | GDACS, ReliefWeb, news Declaration is a political act as much as a measurement. |
| Fire | GDELT, our harvester, national press, FIRMS (large outdoor only) Satellites see hectares, not houses. Structure fires are news-only. |
| Flood | GDACS, NASA EONET, US NWS, Meteoalarm, national services (CAP), news Official for large events; small local flooding arrives only through news. |
| Gas Leak | GDELT, our harvester, national press |
| Heat Wave | US NWS, Meteoalarm, national services (CAP), news Warnings exist; heat DEATHS are counted months later, if at all. |
| Industrial Accident | GDELT, our harvester, national press Confined-space deaths are badly under-captured: single fatalities rarely make the news. |
| Landslide | GDACS, Meteoalarm, national services (CAP), news Large slides reach official feeds. The single-house slide never does. |
| Maritime Accident | GDELT, our harvester, national press |
| Mine Accident | GDELT, national press |
| Nuclear / Radiological | GDELT, national press The IAEA publishes, but not as a routine machine-readable live feed. |
| Power Outage | GDELT, national press Utilities publish local outage maps; nothing aggregates them globally. |
| Rail Accident | GDELT, our harvester, national press Derailments get reported; people struck on the line, which is the larger toll, do not. |
| Riot / Unrest | GDELT, national press |
| Road Accident | GDELT, our harvester, national press The largest killer we track and the one with no live feed at all. National statistics appear yearly. |
| Shooting | GDELT, national press |
| Stampede / Crowd Crush | GDELT, our harvester, national press |
| Storm | GDACS, US NWS, Meteoalarm, national services (CAP), NASA EONET |
| Terror Attack | GDELT, national press, Wikipedia |
| Tornado | US NWS, Meteoalarm Strong for the United States, thin almost everywhere else. |
| Tsunami | NOAA / PTWC, GDACS Mostly warnings and advisories rather than confirmed damaging waves. |
| Volcanic Eruption | Smithsonian GVP, GDACS, NASA EONET Smithsonian reports weekly, so timing is coarser than seismic feeds. |
| Wildfire | NASA FIRMS, NASA EONET, GDACS, Meteoalarm Satellite thermal detection. Sees large outdoor fires; cannot see a kitchen. |
| Space Weather | NOAA SWPC |
| Other Incident | GDELT, national press, public reports |
The full picture, including which kinds of incident no one monitors in real time, is on the coverage page.
Manage your subscription
There is no password. Each watchlist has a private manage link, sent in the confirmation email and at the foot of every digest. From it you can change countries and categories, switch between email and push, pause, or unsubscribe. Unsubscribing takes one click from any email.