Data sources and attribution

EarthLiveMap combines public data from official scientific agencies. We are grateful to all of them. Data is shown as received and may be revised by the source.

• Earthquake data: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), public domain.
• Earthquake data: EMSC-CSEM / SeismicPortal (seismicportal.eu), CC BY 4.0.
• Cyclones, floods and volcanic activity: GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (European Commission JRC, UN OCHA), CC BY 4.0. Automatic alerts; they do not replace national authorities.
• Tsunami bulletins: NOAA / National Weather Service Tsunami Warning Centers (tsunami.gov), public domain.
• Active fire data: NASA FIRMS (LANCE / ESDIS), VIIRS and MODIS near real-time. Satellite hotspots may include other heat sources. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/tools/firms
• Significant earthquakes: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI/WDS), Global Significant Earthquake Database, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K.
• Places: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
• Map: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

EMSC data is licensed under CC BY 4.0; we show it unchanged except for unit and language formatting. USGS and NOAA data are in the U.S. public domain; their use does not imply endorsement.