Data sources

Everything in the World Live Events section comes from a public agency feed. The live cameras themselves are public YouTube streams published by their own broadcasters — TubeTraveler does not operate any camera.

Event feeds

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

Enabled

Primary source for earthquakes. Provides the epicentre, magnitude, focal depth, origin time, felt reports and significance figure that appear on earthquake pages.

Target refresh: every 5 minutes
Last successful read: 2026-08-03 08:15 UTC (6 minutes ago)
Provider site: earthquake.usgs.gov

Earthquake data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

GDACS — Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

Enabled

Primary alerting source for tropical cyclones, floods, volcanic activity, wildfires, droughts and tsunami risk. Provides the alert level that drives our severity rating, plus the list of countries an agency has flagged.

Target refresh: every 12 minutes
Last successful read: 2026-08-03 08:05 UTC (16 minutes ago)
Provider site: www.gdacs.org

Alert data from GDACS, a joint initiative of the United Nations and the European Commission.

NASA EONET

Enabled

Supplementary satellite-based tracking. Fills gaps GDACS does not cover and supplies the track lines and affected-area outlines drawn on our maps. Rarely enough on its own to publish an event.

Target refresh: every 30 minutes
Last successful read: 2026-08-03 08:05 UTC (16 minutes ago)
Provider site: eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov

Event tracking data from NASA EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker).

ReliefWeb (UN OCHA)

Not enabledLink only — never creates an event

Link-only source. We use it to point at official situation reports — the publishing agency, report title and publication time — and never reproduce report text. ReliefWeb never creates an event on its own; it only attaches to an event another agency already reported.

Target refresh: every 45 minutes
Last successful read: Not yet recorded
Provider site: reliefweb.int

Situation reports via ReliefWeb, a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Ticketmaster Discovery API

Not enabled

Optional listings feed for public outdoor events. Heavily filtered to street festivals, parades, fireworks and countdowns, and never published without editorial review. Most festivals on TubeTraveler are entered by hand instead.

Target refresh: every 6 hours
Last successful read: Not yet recorded
Provider site: developer.ticketmaster.com

Event listing data from the Ticketmaster Discovery API.

Camera, map and weather data

Live video — public YouTube live streams, embedded through YouTube’s own player. All rights and broadcast responsibility remain with the original creators. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.
Camera locations, categories and descriptions — compiled and maintained by TubeTraveler. Coordinates that are still estimates are flagged internally and score lower in camera matching until an editor confirms them.
Base map tiles — OpenStreetMap contributors, served via CARTO.
Local weather and sun times — Open-Meteo, plus astronomical calculations we run ourselves from the camera’s coordinates.

How current is any of this?

Each event page shows the timestamp of the last update we received from its source agencies, and each source card above shows when we last read that feed successfully. If a feed becomes unreachable, that source alone is paused and the rest of the site — including every live camera — continues to work normally. Nothing on TubeTraveler waits on an agency API at page load.

Corrections and takedowns

If an agency, broadcaster or reader believes something here is wrong or should not be shown, the corrections page explains how to reach us, and the editorial policy sets out what we will and will not publish. The methodology covers how the data is processed once we have it.