About

Breaking News Desk is an independent, automated project. It shows current earthquakes, storms, floods, fires and weather alerts from public and government sources. A script collects the data about every 10 minutes. No person reviews each item before it appears.

Check official sources. This site is not an emergency service. In an emergency, follow your local authorities.

How items are ranked

Each event gets a score from 0 to 100. The score adds severity (up to 50), size (up to 30) and freshness (up to 20, fading over about a day). Routine US weather warnings are capped so they do not push out large global events. The summary line is built from a fixed template and uses only values from the source data.

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Map outlines: Natural Earth, public domain. Official health-agency notices (WHO, CDC) are links only; this site does not copy their text.

We do not copy news articles. Every item links to its official source page.

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Credits

Data: USGS, NOAA National Weather Service, NOAA National Hurricane Center, NASA EONET, USGS Volcano Hazards Program, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, NOAA tsunami warning centers, GDACS (UN and European Commission). Thank you to the people who run these free services.