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This view shows recent earthquakes worldwide as they are reported by the EMSC — the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Each quake is plotted on the live 3D globe as an expanding ring whose size scales with magnitude, so a swarm of small tremors and a single large event read very differently at a glance. Click any ring to inspect the event: magnitude and magnitude type, depth in kilometres, the Flynn region name, origin time, the reporting agency, and a link to the full record on seismicportal.eu.
The data comes from EMSC's FDSN event web service, which we poll about once a minute for the latest events. EMSC aggregates solutions from a wide network of seismological agencies, so it works as a genuinely independent second network alongside USGS — and it is often faster and better-resolved for quakes outside the Americas, across Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia and the wider globe. Early solutions are automatic and get revised as analysts review them, so magnitudes and locations can shift slightly after the first report.
EMSC seismic is one of roughly 29 live data layers on overwatch.earth. You can run it next to the USGS earthquakes layer to compare networks, or alongside volcanoes, tsunami-relevant ocean buoys and natural-event alerts. Free, no login.
Data source: EMSC
Both track global quakes, but they are independent networks fed by different agencies. EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) tends to be faster and better-resolved outside the Americas — Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Asia — while USGS is strongest over the US and the Americas. Running both lets you cross-check a single event against two sources.
We poll EMSC's FDSN event web service roughly once a minute, pulling the most recent events. First solutions are automatic and may be revised by analysts afterwards, so a quake's magnitude or depth can change slightly in the minutes after it first appears.
Ring size scales with magnitude, so larger quakes draw bigger, faster pulses. Click any event to see its magnitude and magnitude type, depth in kilometres, the Flynn region name, origin time and reporting agency, plus a link to the full event page on seismicportal.eu.
It is global. Despite the European-Mediterranean name, EMSC reports earthquakes worldwide. Its regional strength is the Euro-Mediterranean zone and surrounding areas, which is exactly where it complements USGS coverage.