sometimes mother nature gets a little upset

Earth Alerts



Earth Alerts
Key Features



  • Global activity overview: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and tropical cyclones (typhoons, hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions and other disturbances)

  • United States activity overview: severe weather including special tornado and thunderstorm watches, volcanoes, wildland fires (wildfires), and landslide related hazards

  • Activity for user-selected United States locations: local earthquakes; local wildland fires; local weather including NWS weather/hazard alerts, current conditions, forecasts and radar/satellite imagery

  • Activity for user-selected Global locations (anywhere outside the U.S.): local earthquakes, local weather including current conditions, forecasts and satellite imagery

  • Google Earth™ integration provides visualizations of recent earthquake events, volcanoes, tropical cyclones, wildland fires and severe weather warnings. Google Earth™ integration also provides high resolution views of any user-selected U.S. or Global location

  • Visual and sound notifications on your Windows desktop identifying active alerts

  • Email notifications of active alerts

  • Mobile phone text message (SMS) alert notifications of active tsunami watches / warnings, magnitude 5.0+ earthquakes, major volcanic eruptions and tornado warnings

Earth Alerts | Version 2009
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Latest build: 2009.2.4  Saturday, June 27 2009 - 12:00 PM Pacific time

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods, wildfires, landslides...

...these are the kinds of things our planet dishes out, which arouses human curiosity, fascination and fear.

Latest news - January 2009


As of January 2009 major development work on Earth Alerts was halted. Some new features were added to the program but most changes focused on techniques for making the entire program run faster and more efficiently, especially with regards to update activities (data retrieval, image downloads, etc). I am not planning to make any major enhancements and/or fullfill user requests for new features until later in 2009. Fear not, the Earth Alerts Project definitely isn't dead! I just need to take a leave of absence from it in order to focus on other projects...

Having said that, I will still occasionally update Earth Alerts to maintain accurate data retrieval for existing features and to fix any bugs that crop up which impede major functionality. Sometime in the latter part of 2009, I hope to begin a new phase of enhancements to Earth Alerts. There is no shortage of ideas: both my own and the thoughtful suggestions of loyal users!



What is EARTH ALERTS?


Earth Alerts has been available to the general public since 2005. In that time it has undergone a number of significant enhancements. As a hobby, a one man production and a labor of love, conceiving the ideas and creating Earth Alerts has been a (time consuming) pet project over the past few years!

Earth Alerts is a Windows-based application that allows you to monitor in near real-time a variety of natural hazard events that are occurring anywhere around the world. Alert notifications, reports, and imagery provide the user with a convenient way to view natural phenomenon as they occur, whether close to home or some far-flung corner of the globe!

Earth Alerts uses a variety of online resources provided by organizations such as the National Weather Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution (just to name a few), to identify what sort of activities "Mother Earth" is currently dishing out on the planet.

To use Earth Alerts, you simply select the specific natural hazards -- earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, tropical cyclones, wildland fires, landslides, severe weather, local weather, etc. -- and the locations that interest you. The application will then automatically retrieve the latest information from various live data feeds on the Internet and present it to you in a convenient arrangement of reports and images.


Much More than a weather monitoring program


Earth Alerts includes basic weather tracking features such as National Weather Service alerts, current conditions, local forecasts and radar/satellite imagery. Note that this program does not provide the most extensive weather data or "fanciest" weather related imagery compared to what is available online. If weather information is all you're interested in, then Earth Alerts is probably NOT for you. There are many comprehensive applications, web browser add-ins, and websites available for monitoring weather. Guess what? I use some of them myself!

I created Earth Alerts to do more than just track weather-related phenomenon. The inspiration for Earth Alerts grew out of an idea to create a single application for monitoring multiple types of natural hazards. After all, our planet can be quite destructive to us mortals, by offering up dangers in a variety of ways!

Earth Alerts is a little program for anybody who is fascinated with the power of nature and enjoys keeping track of what our little blue planet is dishing out on a regular basis!




Earth Alerts is freeware, but donations are appreciated!




System Requirements: Hardware


System Requirements: Software