Planet & Sky Live

How many earthquakes, active storm alerts, and near-Earth asteroid approaches are happening right now? This page pulls three public feeds — USGS, the National Weather Service, and NASA/JPL — and keeps the numbers refreshed while you read.

Snapshot baked August 2, 2026; updating live…

Earthquakes

Counted from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program's public GeoJSON feed of magnitude-4.5-and-above events over the trailing 30 days — one count per record in the features array. The largest in this window was M7.7, 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia.

Magnitude breakdown of the last 30 days — snapshot, August 2, 2026.

Track a specific magnitude threshold with our Earthquake magnitude tool.

Weather alerts

Sourced from the National Weather Service's public alerts-count endpoint — every active US watch, warning, and advisory in effect this instant, read straight off the .total field.

See what's active near you with our Hurricane Tracker.

Asteroid approaches

Pulled from NASA/JPL's Close Approach Data API for the next 7 days, within roughly 20 lunar distances (about 0.05 au) of Earth — count is the count field; nearest approach is the minimum dist across the data rows. The nearest in this window comes within 0.00714796180753689 au.

Explore the night sky with our Sky Explorer.

What this page does not count: volcanoes and wildfires

Two obvious members of the natural-hazard family are missing from the three counts above, and the reason is honest rather than principled: neither has a keyless, CORS-friendly endpoint that returns a single trustworthy number the way USGS, the NWS and JPL do. Rather than fake a count, we run dedicated trackers for both and point you at them.

Volcanoes. The Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program is the authority here, and its framing is that 40 to 50 volcanoes are in continuing eruption at any time, of which roughly 20 do something on a given day. Our Volcano Tracker maps every volcano on Earth from GVP data with its last known eruption, and we wrote up how to read an eruption list — including the Ring of Fire statistic almost everyone gets wrong.

Wildfires. Satellite thermal detections are a genuinely different kind of measurement — a hotspot is a pixel that looks hot, not a confirmed fire, and the count swings with cloud cover and satellite overpass times. A single number would mislead more than it informed. Our Wildfire Tracker shows the active fire map instead, which is the honest shape for that data.