ALERT DESK — EVERY RECORDED EVENT

Not just where.
How deep.

Two magnitude‑6 earthquakes can feel identical on a flat map and nothing alike on the ground — one 10 km down, one 600 km down. Spin the globe to see where it happened. Pull it flat and it becomes a cross‑section straight down through the planet. Every point below is a real event this desk has recorded.

CROSS‑SECTION GLOBE

Spinning on its axis — globe view, drag to rotate.

SELECTED EVENT

RANKED BY MAGNITUDE — — RECORDED, M5.0+

USGS PAGER LEVEL

Green — no damage expected

Yellow — some damage possible

Orange — significant damage likely

Red — extensive damage likely

Not yet assessed

Tectonic plate boundary

Drag the globe side to side to spin it on its axis — that's rotation, not depth. Drag it downward (or use the slider) and it unrolls flat: the meridian facing you becomes the center line, and every point drops to its true depth below the surface line — 0 at ground level, ten‑mile steps going down from there. The surface is NASA's own Blue Marble satellite photograph, warped onto the sphere as you rotate it and recolored for a classic globe read — ocean blue, land green, ice and cloud white — from its real underlying terrain. The faint violet lines are Earth's major tectonic plate boundaries — notice how little of this dataset falls far from one. The two published bulletins are ringed in orange.

Not just where.How deep.

SELECTED EVENT

RANKED BY MAGNITUDE — — RECORDED, M5.0+

USGS PAGER LEVEL

Not just where.
How deep.