EARTH · STORYMAP

The Ring of Fire

Nine tenths of the world’s earthquakes happen along one horseshoe of coastline around the Pacific. Scroll, and the map takes you round it — from the Kamchatka megathrust to the Chilean coast that produced the largest earthquake ever measured — with every earthquake of the last 24 hours drawn live underneath you.

10 STOPS · SCROLL TO TRAVEL · UPDATED 2026-07-22

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EARTH · STORYMAPThe Cables That Carry the Internet

Follow the glass threads on the seabed that carry almost everything you do online — and see where they are dangerously thin.

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About this data

Every figure in this story carries its source and the date it refers to, printed beside it. The map layers are the same live feeds the main globe uses: Satellite ground (Esri World Imagery, not live) — High-resolution imagery of the surface. Imagery, not a live camera — no LIVE tag. · Earthquakes, last 24h (USGS, live) — Every earthquake of magnitude 2.5 or greater recorded worldwide in the last 24 hours. Nothing on the map is drawn by hand: where a feed has nothing to show, the layer stays empty rather than being filled in.

Sources: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · USGS — This Dynamic Earth · Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program · NOAA NESDIS — Mount Tambora, 1815 · Pacific Northwest Seismic Network — the 1700 Cascadia earthquake · NOAA Science On a Sphere — tsunami historical series. Credits shown on the map itself: Esri World Imagery · USGS.