Earthrise News covers the ground, the ocean, and the sky above it — discovery and change on a moving planet. The desk's first live wire, Alerts, publishes automatically when a real earthquake clears the desk's live threshold. Land, Sea, and Sky coverage is in production now.
Solid ground, in motion — geology, wildlife, archaeology, and the places changing under our feet.
What's surfacing from the ocean beat — expeditions, marine science, and what the deep gives up.
Space and atmosphere above it — launches, imagery, solar activity, the view from orbit and beyond.
The desk polls the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program feed every 60 seconds and records anything magnitude 4.0 or larger.
Every new event is stamped with a decision within the minute — most are logged and left alone; only a qualifying magnitude moves forward.
The live policy decides which events are claimed for bulletins, with daily and quiet-window safeguards.
The bulletin builds itself: a cover card, the USGS ShakeMap intensity image, and a short read in one of four rotating voices — never the same voice twice in a row.
The video uploads to the channel and archives to storage with full source credit — usually inside half an hour of the ground moving.