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Earth Watch is a live natural-hazard monitor. It reads the planet's own instruments in real time — every earthquake worldwide, ongoing volcanic activity, live tsunami bulletins, and active severe-weather alerts — and puts them on one map with one timeline. Nothing on it is generated or interpreted: every event is the raw reading from the agency that recorded it, with a link straight back to the source.

Does it open on my own area?

Yes. Earth Watch opens on the area you're actually standing in: the scope you already saved in your alert settings if you have one, otherwise your device location as a perimeter around you. Only a member with neither saved area nor a shared location starts on the whole planet — and one tap on 'Worldwide' widens it any time you want to see everything.

Where does the data come from?

Four authoritative public sources: the USGS earthquake catalogue (every quake on Earth in the last 24 hours), the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program weekly activity report, the NOAA Pacific and Alaska Tsunami Warning Centers, and the US National Weather Service active-alerts service for tornado, hurricane, flood, fire, winter and severe-storm warnings. Each card names its source and links to it.

The feeds are read at most once a minute and the page refreshes itself every sixty seconds, so what you are looking at is current to within about a minute of the agencies publishing it. A background sweep also runs every ten minutes to archive events and send alerts, so nothing slips through while you are away.

How do the alerts work?

You choose how wide you're watching, and it's the same choice the map and the live feed follow: a perimeter (a radius of 25 to 3,000 km around a point you set), your county, your state or province, your country, or the whole planet. Tap 'Use my location' once and your county, state and country are all filled in for you. On top of that you set the lowest event level worth alerting you (minor through extreme), which hazard kinds you care about, the smallest earthquake magnitude worth waking you for, and whether alerts arrive in-site, by email, or both.

Will something from far away ever alert me?

No. Your scope is absolute: you are only ever alerted about hazards inside the area you set, and by default that area is your own local perimeter. A huge event on the other side of the country — or the world — will never notify you unless you widen your scope to include it yourself. Nothing is ever forced on you.

Do the alerts come by email?

Only if you ask for them. In your alert settings you choose the channels: an in-site bell notification (on by default), email to your account address, or both. You also set the lowest event level worth telling you about — minor, light, notable, major or extreme — so your inbox only ever carries what you said mattered. Your platform-wide email preference is honored on top of that: if you've switched Quantisophy™ emails off in Settings, no hazard email will ever be sent to you — your bell keeps working exactly as you set it.

Why do I see small earthquakes I'd never feel?

Because the USGS records them and hiding them would be editing the planet's data. The map shows everything; the severity filter is there so you can raise the floor to Notable, Major or Extreme whenever you only want what matters. Your alert settings are separate — a magnitude 1.4 tremor will never notify you unless you ask it to.

Is the severe-weather coverage worldwide?

Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunami bulletins are global. Tornado, hurricane, flood, fire and winter alerts come from the US National Weather Service, so that layer covers the United States and its territories. We say so plainly rather than implying global weather coverage we don't have.

Is this an official warning system?

No, and it must never be used as one. Earth Watch is a monitor that mirrors public agency feeds; it can lag, and a feed can go down. In an emergency always follow your own local emergency services and official warnings. Every card links to the authoritative source for exactly that reason.

Yes. Every event the sweep sees is archived permanently, so you can look back over the last day, week, month or year, filter by hazard and severity, and search by place — long after the live feeds have rolled the event off.

Does Earth Watch cost anything?

No. Every hazard reading on this page is public information published by the USGS, the Smithsonian, NOAA and the National Weather Service, so Earth Watch is free to every Quantisophy™ member — the live map, the archive and your own alerts. All you need is a free account, so your alert settings have somewhere to live.

Live planetary monitor

Earth Watch

Every earthquake on Earth, live volcanic activity, tsunami bulletins and active severe-weather warnings — read straight from the USGS, the Smithsonian, NOAA and the National Weather Service, on one map, in real time.

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Pick a perimeter around your point, your county, your state, your country, or the whole planet. The map and the feed follow it exactly — and one tap locks your alerts to the same area.

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