U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Official
Earthquake Hazards Program — GeoJSON summary feed
Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and above worldwide, with magnitude, depth and epicentre.
Data sources
WorldPulse does not generate information. Every event it shows comes from a publicly available feed published by the institution named below. This page lists all 13 data sources and 10 news feeds, with a direct link to each organisation's official website.
Natural disasters & weather
GDACS — European Commission (JRC) & United Nations (OCHA) Official
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — GeoRSS feed
Global alerts for earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, volcanoes and drought.
NOAA — National Weather Service (NWS) Official
Active Alerts API
Severe and extreme weather warnings in the United States: tornado, flood, storm, extreme heat.
NASA — Goddard Space Flight Center Official
EONET v3 (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker)
Categorised natural events: wildfires, storms, floods, volcanic activity, sea and lake ice.
NASA — LANCE FIRMS Official
FIRMS active fire data (VIIRS S-NPP near real-time)
Satellite-detected active fires and thermal anomalies worldwide.
Smithsonian Institution Official
Global Volcanism Program — Weekly Volcanic Activity Report
Weekly reports of ongoing and new volcanic eruptions worldwide.
Note: Smithsonian blocks automated HEAD/GET requests (403 to curl), including its own RSS feed. The domain is live and the feed is fetched successfully in production. Open in a browser to confirm.
NASA — Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) Official
DONKI (Space Weather Database Of Notifications, Knowledge, Information)
Space weather: solar flares, coronal mass ejections and geomagnetic storms.
NOAA — Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) Official
Space weather alerts and scales
The authority space-weather events link back to for official context.
Conflict & geopolitical events
The GDELT Project
GDELT 2.0 raw Event export (CSV)
Conflict and protest events extracted from world news, with coordinates, CAMEO codes and actor pairs.
Cyber threats
CISA — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS) Official
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog
Vulnerabilities confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild.
NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology Official
National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
The authoritative CVE record each cyber event links back to.
abuse.ch (Institute for Cybersecurity and Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences)
ThreatFox — indicators of compromise (IOC) API
Active malware campaigns and indicators of compromise, aggregated by malware family.
Infrastructure
OpenStreetMap contributors
Overpass API (ODbL-licensed open map data)
Static infrastructure layers: nuclear plants, military bases and airfields, dams, data centres, ports, airports, spaceports and border crossings.
News · 10 RSS feeds
News is read via public RSS feeds. WorldPulse shows the headline, a short summary and a link to the original article. Article bodies are never reproduced.
Static infrastructure · 39,510 facilities
Infrastructure layers are built from OpenStreetMap data via the Overpass API, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). These are static datasets, refreshed periodically — not live feeds.
Dams 10,420
Airports 8,097
Strategic ports 5,391
Military bases 5,322
Border crossings 3,986
Data centres 3,571
Military airfields 2,369
Nuclear facilities 279
Spaceports 36
Stock exchanges 30
Maritime chokepoints 9
Questions about our data
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Where exactly does each event come from?
Every event in WorldPulse carries the name of the source that published it, and a link to the original record. This page lists all 13 data sources and 10 news feeds, each with the official website of the institution behind it.
Can I rely on WorldPulse for emergency warnings?
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How is news content used?
News sources are read via their public RSS feeds. WorldPulse shows the headline, a short summary and a link to the original article. Article bodies are never reproduced.