EarthNow

v0.1.0 Windows Free and open source No account

See what the Earth is doing right now.

Open a globe and the planet's week is on it: the earthquakes, the eruptions, the wildfires, the storms and the floods, each at the place it happened. Spin it, zoom in, hover and you know what, where and how long ago.

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What you see

The whole planet's week, in one glance.

News tells you about the disaster everyone is talking about. EarthNow shows you everything else as well: the swarm of small quakes off Japan, the fire season moving across a continent, the volcano that has been quietly grumbling all week. It is the Earth as it actually is today.

EarthNow showing the Americas and Africa with a week of earthquakes, wildfires, storms, floods and ice on the globe, the action buttons down the left and the key of categories with their counts down the right.
A week on the globe, with the key counting what is showing.
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A globe you can hold

NASA's Blue Marble on a black sky. Leave it alone and it turns slowly by itself; grab it and it is yours to spin and zoom.

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Every event where it happened

Each one wears its own emoji, so the map reads at a glance. Earthquakes grow with their magnitude. Crowded spots gather into a count; click it and the globe zooms in until they separate.

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Names the place

Hover a marker for the nearest town, its country, how far away and in which direction. No more squinting at an ocean wondering where that is.

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The detail, one click away

Open an event for its time, its position, its measurement and a link to the source's own page, which opens in your browser.

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The last hour or the last week

Pick 1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours, 3 days or 7 days. Turn categories and sources on and off from the key, which counts what is showing.

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Works from the keyboard

Every button and every event on the globe can be reached without a mouse.

〰️ Earthquakes 🌋 Volcanoes 🔥 Wildfires 🌀 Severe storms 🌊 Floods 🪨 Landslides 🏜️ Drought 💨 Dust and haze 🧊 Ice

Straight from the source

Nothing made up. Nothing dressed up as live.

Every event names who reported it and how old that report is. EarthNow does not guess, predict or embellish; it shows what the people who measure the planet have published, then tells you plainly when it heard.

A wildfire in Brazil opened in the detail panel: its nearest town, position, event time, burned area, the provider EONET, when it was retrieved and a link to the source page.
One event in full, traced to the source that reported it.

USGS

Earthquakes from the United States Geological Survey, checked every minute.

NASA EONET

Wildfires, storms, floods, ice and more from NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker, checked every ten minutes.

Smithsonian

The volcanoes in the Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, from the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program with the USGS, checked every hour.

The globe is NASA's Blue Marble imagery, on this page as in the app. Neither NASA, the USGS nor the Smithsonian endorses EarthNow. It simply shows their public reports, credited.

Calm by design

It keeps quiet and keeps working.

What you can count on

  • Offline? Still useful. It opens on the last events it received and tells you how old they are.
  • One source down? The others carry on while it quietly tries again.
  • Honest about age. A source that has gone quiet is marked stale rather than passed off as current.
  • Private. No account, no sign-in, no telemetry. It talks to the three sources above and nobody else.

What it is not

  • A warning system. No alerts, no forecasts. For warnings, listen to your local authorities.
  • An archive. A week is as far back as it looks.
  • A mapping tool. No layers, no measurements, no satellite imagery, no weather.
  • Everywhere. Windows only.

Install

Three steps to the whole world.

  1. Download EarthNowSetup.exe from the latest release.
  2. Run it and choose Install. It installs for your account only, so Windows never asks for administrator rights.
  3. Open EarthNow from the Start Menu and watch the planet turn.

For Windows 10 and 11. It needs a graphics driver able to draw in 3D; on a machine without one, EarthNow says so rather than showing an empty window. To remove it, uninstall from Settings, then Apps.

Supporting EarthNow

Free. It stays free.

There is no paid tier, no licence key and no feature held back behind a donation. If EarthNow has given you a better sense of the planet you live on, a contribution supports its maintenance and continued development. The same link sits at the foot of the button rail in the app itself.

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