About EarthEvent

One globe. Swipe to spin, pinch to zoom, tap anywhere for the weather there.

Every layer has a Learn button that explains what you are seeing and where the data comes from.

Learn has 25 short lessons with predictions and check questions, and notes for teachers. This website lets you read all of them and play many of them in the browser. Live alerts and more are in the app.

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Privacy

This website has no accounts, no cookies and no analytics or advertising. To draw the globe, your browser asks this site (earth.traland.com, which also relays satellite, aurora and space-weather data from our server), USGS, NASA GIBS and OpenFreeMap for data. Each of them sees your IP address and browser type, as with any web request. Nothing a student answers is stored or sent. The site is delivered through Cloudflare, and our web server keeps standard access logs for security and troubleshooting.

Data sources used on this website

• USGSUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program, public domain. Earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above from the past week.
• Plate boundariesPlate boundaries: P. Bird (2003), digitised by H. Ahlenius / Nordpil. ODC-By 1.0.
• Volcano locationsVolcano locations: NOAA NCEI Volcano Location Database (doi:10.7289/V5JW8BSH), derived from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution (https://volcano.si.edu/), Volcanoes of the World.
• Climate zonesClimate zones: Köppen-Geiger classification, Beck, H.E. et al. (2023), Scientific Data 10, 724, doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02549-6. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Resampled to 0.5° by EarthEvent (modified).
• City climateCity climate normals (1981–2010): CHELSA V2.1, Karger et al. (2017, 2021), WSL, CC0 1.0. doi:10.16904/envidat.228
• NASA GIBSImagery: NASA Blue Marble Shaded Relief and Bathymetry and NASA VIIRS Black Marble. We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). NASA does not endorse EarthEvent.
• OpenFreeMapMap: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles. Data from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). Fonts: Noto Sans (SIL OFL 1.1). Icons: Maki (CC0).
• CelesTrakSatellite orbital elements: CelesTrak (https://celestrak.org), from US Space Force 18th Space Defense Squadron data via Space-Track.org.
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction CenterAurora forecast and Kp: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (OVATION model). NOAA does not endorse EarthEvent.
• World Magnetic ModelMagnetic field: World Magnetic Model 2025 (WMM2025), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and the British Geological Survey. U.S. Government material, not subject to copyright protection. Magnetic pole positions 1590–2025: NOAA NCEI.
• GeoNamesCity list (population 100k and above). CC BY 4.0.

CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Where data was resampled, sampled per city or adapted for display, EarthEvent changed it. NOAA, NASA and the other providers do not endorse EarthEvent.

Also used in the EarthEvent app

• MET NorwayWeather data: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Current conditions, the hourly forecast and the wind grids behind the particle layer.
• GDACSTropical cyclone positions, tracks and wind zones, plus floods, fires and volcanoes: GDACS, Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (European Commission Joint Research Centre and United Nations). © European Union, 2026, CC BY 4.0; adapted for display. Automatic estimates, not official warnings: follow your national weather service.
• Sea-level pressureSea-level pressure: NOAA NCEP GFS via PacIOOS ERDDAP; forecast data, not for legal use. Terrain mask: NOAA ETOPO1.
• Past typhoon tracksPast typhoon tracks: NOAA's IBTrACS v04r01 (Knapp et al. 2010; Gahtan et al. 2024, doi:10.25921/82ty-9e16), from RSMC Tokyo (JMA) and JTWC best tracks. Cone sizes: NOAA National Hurricane Center.
• Sea surface temperatureSea surface temperature: NASA JPL MUR v4.1 (doi:10.5067/GHGMR-4FJ04) via NASA GIBS.
• Average windsAverage winds (10 m and 850 hPa): NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 long-term monthly means (Kalnay et al. 1996). Data provided by the NOAA PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their website at https://psl.noaa.gov. Public domain; NOAA does not endorse EarthEvent.
• NOAA Climate Prediction CenterOceanic Niño Index, weekly Niño region temperatures and the ENSO status for the El Niño card.
• GDELTNews data from the GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org). Headlines link to their publishers.
• SatelliteKitSGP4/SDP4 orbit propagation (MIT licence).
• Apple MapsGlobe imagery, geocoding and search.

Open-source licences

This website is built with open-source software. The full licence text of every package that reaches your browser is in /licenses.txt.

Inter: Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter), licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the licence text is at /fonts/OFL.txt and in /licenses.txt. Lucide: ISC licence, Copyright (c) 2026 Lucide Icons and Contributors; some icons derive from Feather, Copyright (c) 2013-present Cole Bemis (MIT). Icons on this website are Lucide only.

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