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  • Live: ship transits through maritime chokepoints, from IMF PortWatch. The source updates weekly and runs a few days behind; each card shows its last day.
  • Live: earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the past seven days, from the USGS, with the mines and plants on record near each epicentre. Checked every fifteen minutes.
  • Not live yet: individual ships. Ship tracking is coming soon: the data service publishes no terms that allow showing positions publicly, so the layer stays off until it does.
  • Not live yet: active fires near sites (NASA FIRMS). The layer needs a data key that is not set up.
  • Not live yet: policy events. The atlas shows the export controls USGS listed as in force in January 2026, on each material page.
  • Everything else in the atlas is annual or monthly data. Each figure carries its own year.

Chokepoints: transits against a year earlier

Average daily transits over the seven days up to the latest day in the source, against the average over the same seven weekdays 52 weeks earlier. Change = (now − baseline) ÷ baseline.

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Source: IMF PortWatch ↗. Shown here under the IMF's terms of use. These figures are not part of the atlas's downloads or its API. IMF copyright and usage ↗

Earthquakes near mines and plants

Each earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more in the past seven days is compared with every mine and plant on record. A site is listed when the great-circle distance between it and the epicentre is 100 km or less. Distance to the epicentre says nothing about shaking or damage at a site: that depends on depth, ground and construction.

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Source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, real-time feed (public domain). earthquake.usgs.gov ↗

Disaster alerts

GDACS, the alert system of the United Nations and the European Commission, publishes alerts for earthquakes, cyclones, floods and volcanoes. Its terms of use state no permission to republish them, so the atlas does not show them and links to the source instead. Open GDACS ↗

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