Latest events
A window down the right logs the last 24 hours' events, newest first: earthquakes of M4.5 and up, liftoffs, SPC's tornado reports and its significant hail and wind, NWS tornado and extreme wind warnings, tsunami bulletins, GDACS's orange and red alerts and MeteoAlarm's red warnings. Above the log, the next launches count down to T−0, and each joins the log as it lifts off.
When something new arrives, the globe glides to it and rings it with its name, so left alone the page is a running picture of the day. Click any row to go there yourself and open its details.
How to read it
Each row is one event: a dot in its layer’s color (an earthquake’s red, a tornado report’s red, wind blue, hail green, a launch cyan), what happened, where, how long ago and the UTC time. The row the globe is on is outlined. A countdown above the log names the rocket, the mission and the pad, with Launch Library’s status: GO in green, HOLD in amber. At T−0 the countdown leaves, and the liftoff takes its place at the top of the log.
The log is what the layers on the globe hold, so it’s only as fresh as they are: USGS’s quake feed every minute and EMSC’s pushed as published, SPC’s reports every 5 minutes (they lag the storm by up to an hour), NWS warnings every few minutes. Switching a layer off takes its events out of the log; the hazard threshold (medium and up, or high only) thins it the way it thins the globe.
Drag or zoom the globe and it stays where you put it for a minute: an event that arrives meanwhile waits under the countdowns until you let go. The globe moves at most every 20 seconds, so a burst of reports doesn’t send it spinning. Set to a past time or a faster clock, the log is a record and the globe stays put.
Questions
What counts as an event?
Something with one moment and one place: a quake’s origin time, a liftoff’s T−0, the time a tornado was reported or a warning sent, a bulletin issued. Lightning and fire detections are fields rather than moments, and a hurricane’s advisories update a storm already shown, so they stay on the globe but off the log. Small quakes below M4.5 are left out unless USGS gave them a PAGER alert or a tsunami flag.
Why did the globe turn to an older event?
It turns to whatever is new to the log, as long as it happened in the last three hours. Storm reports in particular reach SPC late, so a tornado reported now may have touched down 40 minutes ago, below quakes that came in since.
Can I leave this running on a screen?
Yes, that’s what it’s for. It needs no input, keeps the last day’s events, drops what’s older, and keeps checking each source on its own schedule for as long as the tab is open.
Sources
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program real-time feeds, USGS
- European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC, EMSC-CSEM), EMSC
- Launch Library 2 (LL2), The Space Devs
- Storm reports (SPC storm reports), NOAA Storm Prediction Center
- National Weather Service alerts (NWS, api.weather.gov), NOAA
- U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers (NTWC, PTWC, tsunami.gov), NOAA
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), European Commission JRC / UN OCHA
- MeteoAlarm, EUMETNET
The same view as a link: lumivex.earth/?clouds=1&radar=0&imerg=0&sats=off&launches=1&aurora=0&storms=0&severe=1&fires=0&quakes=1&lightning=0&events=1&snow=0&tsunami=1&latest=1
Drag to look around, scroll to zoom. Settings live in the URL, so any view can be shared.
view | fixed · sunrel · orbit · moon · track |
track | what to follow: iss, tiangong, satgus (Mark Rober's Space Selfie satellite), launch, sunrise, moonrise |
lat, lon | viewer position (fixed) or offset from the subsolar point (sunrel) |
period, inc | orbit period (hours) and inclination (°) |
dist | viewer distance in Earth radii; 0 = orthographic |
mag, rot | size and rotation (°) |
wait | seconds between redraws (default 60) |
time, speed | ISO start time; clock multiplier |
clouds, lights, grid, markers, label | 0 or 1 |
borders | Country borders (Natural Earth), the disputed and undefined ones dashed, and the countries’ names once zoomed in, off by default (key B) |
terminator | The day–night line (Sun on the horizon), with the twilight band’s edges dashed: the Sun 6° up and 6° down, off by default (key Z) |
stars | 1, 0, or photo (dimmed like a camera exposed for sunlit Earth) |
sats | all (Starlink + named), featured, or 0 |
aurora, storms, fires, quakes | 0 hides that layer (keys A H F E) |
buoys, buoy | Buoys on the globe, off by default (key Shift+B); buoy=46026 opens that buoy’s window. Click a buoy to open it. |
meteors | The last day’s meteors (Global Meteor Network), recent fireballs and the coming close approaches (NASA/JPL), off by default (key Shift+M) |
iono | Ionosphere wash: tec electron content (GloTEC), drap HF radio absorption (D-RAP), or 0 (key Shift+I) |
lightning, events, snow | lightning, GDACS floods/wildfires/eruptions with NASA's flood map and USGS's US volcano alert levels, snow and ice (keys L D I) |
sst | Sea temperature: temp, anomaly (El Niño, marine heatwaves; 1 means this), or 0 (key O) |
lst | Land surface temperature (VIIRS, MODIS): auto the afternoon’s by day and the night’s by night (1 means this), day, night, or 0 (key Shift+K) |
soil | Soil moisture (SMAP L4): surface the top 5 cm (1 means this), root the root zone to 1 m, or 0 (key Shift+W) |
chl | Chlorophyll-a (MODIS Aqua, Terra), the last eight days: 1 or 0 (key Shift+O; off by default) |
aerosol | Aerosols: aod VIIRS optical depth (1 means this), index the OMPS UV aerosol index, smoke and dust, or 0 (key Shift+Y; off by default) |
waves, wavesrc | Wave height and direction (NOAA GFS-Wave, WAVEWATCH III) as trails that travel with the waves, coloured by height: 1 or 0 (off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
currents, currentsrc | Ocean surface currents (NASA OSCAR, a daily mean, two or three days behind) as trails carried by them, coloured by speed: 1 or 0 (off by default; key Q cycles waves → currents → both → off); folder holding its latest.json |
coral, coralsrc | Coral bleaching heat stress (NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks), drawn within 35° of the equator: 1 or 0 (key Shift+R; off by default); folder holding its latest.json |
ash | volcanic ash: EUMETSAT's Ash RGB, and GDACS's eruptions in a window (key Shift+A; off by default) |
radar, smoke, tsunami | RainViewer radar, NOAA HMS smoke, NOAA tsunami alerts (keys R Y Shift+T) |
imagery | live GOES and MTG pictures by day, daily yesterday’s VIIRS when zoomed in, painted neither; with live or daily, the newest night’s lights when zoomed in (key Shift+P; the older truecolor=0/1 still works) |
severe | Severe weather: NWS warning polygons and the SPC day-1 outlook (US), MeteoAlarm's warnings (Europe) (key X) |
imerg | With the radar, satellite rain where there’s no radar: EUMETSAT H SAF (MTG) over Europe and Africa, NASA IMERG elsewhere (R’s middle step turns it off) |
relief | terrain lit by the real Sun, from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (key Shift+E); 0 shows NASA's fixed shaded relief |
reliefscale | terrain relief strength, 0.1–5 (default 1) |
isslive | NASA ISS telemetry panel: track (while tracking the ISS), 1 (always) or 0 (key Shift+L) |
isscam | 1 opens the camera in the ISS telemetry: the station from 120 m above, its solar arrays posed from the live telemetry, and the Earth below (the wheel zooms it, 30–120°) |
firehours | show fires detected within this many hours, 1–24 (default 12) |
launches | 0 hides launch mode (key U) |
bodies, bodyscale | Sun and Moon on/off; enlarge their discs (1 = true size) |
fps | 1 shows the frame-rate display (key ~) |
feeds | 1 shows the data-feeds dashboard: each source's last update and next check (key Shift+U) |
cloudsrc, satsrc | folders holding each latest.json |
