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Magnitude-2.5-and-above seismic events the USGS has located in the last 24 hours. The planet never stops moving; most of these are never felt.
About this number
This is a live, measured figure, read from USGS— the same feed that powers the live map behind it. If that feed goes quiet, this counter says so rather than freezing on an old value: a frozen pulse is a lie.