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This layer plots open natural events from NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) onto the live globe. EONET is a curated, near-real-time feed that links events to satellite imagery, so what you see here is the same registry NASA maintains — not a single sensor's raw output. Each marker is an active or recently logged event, drawn as a point or polygon and clickable for a deeper look at its category, dates and source.
EONET unifies 13 categories into one stream: severe storms (hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes), volcanoes, wildfires, sea and lake ice and icebergs, dust and haze, floods, landslides, drought, snow, temperature extremes, water color, earthquakes and manmade events. The strength of this source is breadth and curation — events are pulled from more than 30 trusted curators including the National Hurricane Center, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, InciWeb, the U.S. National Ice Center and the USGS, then reconciled into one consistent format.
The feed updates continuously as curators add and revise events, so coverage reflects what's currently flagged rather than a fixed daily snapshot. It is one of roughly 29 live layers you can solo, spin, zoom and inspect on overwatch.earth.
Data source: NASA EONET
From NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET). EONET doesn't run its own sensors — it curates events from 30-plus sources like the National Hurricane Center, the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, InciWeb, the U.S. National Ice Center and the USGS into one consistent feed linked to satellite imagery.
EONET covers 13 categories: severe storms, volcanoes, wildfires, sea and lake ice, dust and haze, floods, landslides, drought, snow, temperature extremes, water color, earthquakes and manmade events. This layer shows them all together on one globe.
It's a near-real-time, continuously updated feed. Events appear and get revised as EONET's curators log them, so timing depends on the underlying source — some are flagged within hours, others take longer to confirm and add.
EONET is curated, not automatic. An event shows up only after one of its source agencies has reported and EONET has added it, so very new or minor events can lag or be omitted. For raw, instant detection look at the dedicated wildfire or earthquake layers instead.