Live on the globe now: 9 tracked
This is the live earthquake layer on overwatch.earth: every recent quake the U.S. Geological Survey has reported, plotted on a spinnable 3D globe. The dot of each event sits at its epicenter, and an expanding ring is drawn around it whose size, speed and pulse all scale with magnitude — so a magnitude 6 reads loud and a magnitude 2 stays quiet at a glance. The data comes straight from the USGS real-time feed (earthquake.usgs.gov), pulled roughly once a minute, so the map keeps pace with the planet as new events are located. Click any quake to deep-dive into its USGS details: place name, magnitude and magnitude type, depth in kilometers, the PAGER impact alert level, tsunami flag, "Did You Feel It?" felt reports, review status, and a link back to the official event page. This is the USGS view; a separate EMSC layer carries the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre's catalog, which often surfaces regional events sooner. Earthquakes is one of roughly 29 live layers you can solo or stack on the same globe — overlay it with tsunami-relevant ocean buoys, volcanoes or weather alerts to read the wider picture.
Data source: USGS
Directly from the U.S. Geological Survey's real-time earthquake feed at earthquake.usgs.gov. USGS locates and reviews events worldwide, so each quake on the globe is an official USGS solution, not a third-party estimate.
It refreshes about once a minute from the USGS feed, showing the most recent events as they are located and revised. Early entries may be marked automatic and later upgraded to reviewed by a USGS analyst, with magnitude or depth adjusted.
The ring around each epicenter scales with magnitude — larger, faster, more frequent pulses mean a bigger quake. It's a visual cue; the exact magnitude, magnitude type and depth appear when you click an event.
This page uses the USGS feed, which adds PAGER impact alerts and 'Did You Feel It?' felt reports. The separate EMSC layer draws from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre and often catches regional events faster. Run both to compare.