🌀 Climate & disasters — what strikes AI's infrastructure from outside?

Latest observations

A zero means zero events that day; "not yet measured" means missing. Machine-readable: /us/api/disaster_us.json

Observation tables

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "Active tropical cyclones, TS or stronger (NHC, Atlantic + East/Central Pacific; daily sn…"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "Active heat alerts (Excessive Heat Warning + Heat Advisory; daily snapshot)"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "Earthquakes M5.0+ per day (UTC; U.S. vicinity bounding box — see definition)"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Candidates (not yet observed) — added to this chapter once verification completes

• Wildfire (NIFC — large incidents / acres burned) — Endpoint reachable; open-data licence text not yet verified. Added to the profile once verified.

Method, scope, and why this chapter is not judged

• Mechanical counts only: event counts from official feeds. No damage figures, no casualties, no forecasts, no judgment — the status stays "observing".
• Regional profile: only hazards in this region's profile (earthquake, hurricane, extreme heat) are shown; wildfire is listed as a candidate until its data licence is verified. Seismic scales differ across countries, so no cross-country comparison.
• Definitions: earthquakes = USGS events M5.0+ per UTC day inside the stated bounding box (lat 18–72, lon −180 to −66 — "U.S. vicinity"); hurricanes = NHC active storms classified TS or stronger (Atlantic + East/Central Pacific), daily snapshot; heat = active Excessive Heat Warnings + Heat Advisories, daily snapshot.
• Boundaries: cooling degree days (a continuous load measure) live in the data-center chapter; drought belongs to the planned water chapter; grid operations belong to the electricity chapter. This chapter is only the external hazard events.
• What this chapter can say: how many M5.0+ earthquakes USGS recorded per UTC day inside the stated U.S.-vicinity bounding box; how many tropical cyclones of tropical-storm strength or stronger the NHC listed as active each day (Atlantic and East/Central Pacific), and how many Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories were active (daily snapshots); which days recorded zero events as opposed to days not yet measured, and which same-day values are still provisional.
• What this chapter cannot say: what damage, casualties or facility impacts any event caused (counts only); whether a hurricane, earthquake or heat wave will occur (no forecasts); wildfire activity (a candidate until the NIFC licence is verified), or how U.S. hazard levels compare with Japan or the EU (different scales and profiles).
• Sources: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, NOAA National Hurricane Center, NOAA NWS alerts API — all public domain, no keys. Compiled by AI Lifeline.