Earthquake map and alerts, plus wildfires, floods and conflicts worldwide.
Observe Earth is a live global events monitoring platform that brings together everything happening around the world in one place. From natural disasters like earthquakes, wildfires, and floods, to conflicts, protests, and disease outbreaks, to airport delays, transport incidents, fuel-price moves, and worldwide news on the keywords you care about — all delivered in real-time on a live dark map.
YOUR TODAY FEED (NEW)
• One daily page combining every event and news story that matched your follows over the last 24h
• Keyword news rollups: one card per followed keyword (Bitcoin, your city, a politician)
• Event groups by topic: earthquakes, conflicts, transport incidents, fuel-price moves
• Watched-location alerts grouped by city or country
• Swipe left or right (or tap arrows) to browse any day in the last 30 days
MORNING NEWS CLIPPING
• Follow any keyword and wake up to one card per day per keyword
• An AI-written sentence blending today's angles, a hero image, and every publisher covering the story
• Tap any headline to open the original source directly
• Search across the last 30 days of global news
LIVE GLOBAL MAP
• Real-time events plotted with color-coded markers
• Tap any event for full details, related coverage, and country context
• Drag to resize the map and event feed, or go full-screen
EVENTS & DATA
• Earthquakes worldwide, updated continuously
• Disasters — wildfires, floods, cyclones, volcanoes
• Conflicts, protests, and explosions — AI-curated from worldwide news, refreshed every hour, 120+ countries
• Disease outbreaks — AI-detected and verified across global health-news sources
• Airport delays and closures
• Transport incidents and power outages — AI-extracted from public news reports
• Fuel-price moves — live retail prices for 165 countries
• Internet outages
• Economic indicators
• Worldwide news firehose across 7 categories — world politics, business, tech, science, sports, entertainment, health
COUNTRY & CITY INTELLIGENCE
• 250 countries with economic indicators, safety ratings, and air quality
• Economy dashboard with sparkline charts and trend arrows
• Cost of living comparison across cities
• Safety page with travel risk and crime indices
• Daily AI-generated country summaries
COMMUNITY OBSERVATIONS
• Post what you see — share real-time reports with photos
• Vote on observations
• Browse reports from people around the world
WORKS WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT
• Browse everything freely — sign in only to post and vote
• Sign In with Apple or Google
DATA SOURCES
Observe Earth is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing any government entity.
Official government and intergovernmental sources of the information shown in the app:
• Earthquakes: USGS — https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
• Disasters: GDACS (European Commission, UN) — https://www.gdacs.org/
• Travel advisories: U.S. Department of State — https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories.html
• US airport delays: FAA — https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
• Health: WHO — https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news https://www.who.int/data/gho
• Economy: World Bank — https://data.worldbank.org/
• Fuel prices, US: EIA — https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
• Fuel prices, EU: European Commission — https://energy.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analysis/weekly-oil-bulletin_en
• Fuel prices, Brazil: ANP — https://www.gov.br/anp/pt-br
• Fuel prices, New Zealand: MBIE — https://www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and-energy/energy-and-natural-resources/energy-statistics-and-modelling/energy-statistics/weekly-fuel-price-monitoring
• Fuel prices, Malaysia: data.gov.my — https://data.gov.my/data-catalogue/fuelprice
Everything else is not government information: it comes from independent data providers, from public news reports compiled with the help of AI, and from user posts.
Recent changes:
Links to observe.earth now open directly in the app.
Fixed city pages where the daily summary stayed empty.
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