Data sources

The following networks and data centers provide the raw seismic data that QuakeMap24 retrieves and harmonizes:

• AFAD – Disaster and Emergency Management Authority — Turkey
• AusPass – Australian Passive Seismic Server (ANU) — Australia
• BGR – Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources — Germany
• BMKG – Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics — Indonesia
• British Geological Survey (BGS) — United Kingdom
• Centro de Sismologia, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) — Brazil
• Earthquakes Canada – Natural Resources Canada — Canada
• Engineering Strong-Motion Database (ESM-DB) — international
• European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC-CSEM) — international
• GEOFON – GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam — Germany
• Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) — Denmark
• GeoNet — New Zealand
• Geoscience Australia — Australia
• Icelandic Meteorological Office (Veðurstofa Íslands) — Iceland
• Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) — Spain
• Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) — France
• Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica — Taiwan
• Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP) — Peru
• Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) — Spain
• Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) — Portugal
• International Seismological Centre (ISC) — international
• IRIS / EarthScope Data Services — international
• Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) — Italy
• Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) — Japan
• Kamchatka Branch, Geophysical Survey RAS (SDIS) — Russia
• Kandilli Observatory (KOERI), Boğaziçi University — Turkey
• LMU Munich – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences — Germany
• National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP) — Romania
• National Observatory of Athens (NOA) — Greece
• Northern California Earthquake Data Center (NCEDC) — United States
• Norwegian National Seismic Network (NNSN), University of Bergen — Norway
• ORFEUS – Observatories & Research Facilities for European Seismology — international
• Republic Seismological Survey of Serbia — Serbia
• RESIF-EPOS – French seismologic and geodetic network — France
• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) — Netherlands
• RéNaSS / FranceSéisme (BCSF) — France
• Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC), Caltech — United States
• Swiss Seismological Service (SED), ETH Zürich — Switzerland
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program — United States

QuakeMap24 processes the official English-language reports of Taiwan's Central Weather Administration on significant and locally felt earthquakes. CWA records are harmonized and deduplicated with reports from other seismological networks.

CWA Open Data Platform · Dataset & license information · Open Government Data License, Version 1.0.

QuakeMap24 relays official tsunami messages from the NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and the U.S. National Weather Service. Only actual, non-expired warnings, watches, advisories and threat messages are shown as active alerts.

QuakeMap24 is not a warning authority. Always follow the instructions of local authorities and the linked official message.

NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers · National Weather Service Alerts API

Place and region names and weather data are enriched via Nominatim / OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) and Open-Meteo. Volcano data is sourced from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

Estimated impact and ground shaking come from USGS PAGER, ShakeMap and "Did You Feel It?" (public domain). Tectonic plates: Bird (2003), PB2002. Place and region descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0).

Significant historical earthquakes (with casualties/damage) on country pages: NOAA NCEI Significant Earthquake Database (U.S. agency, public).