Earth Alerts is an application designed to run on Microsoft Windows that allows you to monitor in near real-time a variety of natural hazard events that are occurring anywhere around the world. Alert notifications, reports, and imagery provide the user with a convenient way to view natural phenomenon as they occur, whether close to home or some far-flung corner of the globe!

Earth Alerts uses a variety of online resources provided by organizations such as the National Weather Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution (just to name a few), to identify what sort of activities "Mother Earth" is currently dishing out on the planet.

To use Earth Alerts, you simply select the specific natural hazards – earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, tropical cyclones, wildfires, landslides, severe weather, local weather, etc. – and the locations that interest you. The application will then automatically retrieve the latest information from various live data feeds available on the Internet and present it to you in a convenient arrangement of reports, maps and images.

Earth Alerts has been available to the general public since 2005. In that time it has undergone a number of significant enhancements. As a hobby, a one man production and a labor of love, conceiving the ideas and creating Earth Alerts has been a (time consuming) pet project over the past few years

What's New

The Earth Alerts project has been resurrected from the dead! There are many bug fixes. Some features have been removed entirely. A few features are still broken, mostly due to external factors, such as data sources being unavailable, incomplete and/or out of date. Time permitting, I will continue to maintain this project.

Thank you to all who have supported the Earth Alerts project over the years! I first made this application publicly available back in 2006. When I was younger, and had more time available, I spent a lot of time working on this project. To those out there who may still be using Earth Alerts, I am sorry I cannot devote as much time to it as before. Life happens, priorities change.

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