The Earth Conditions Index
FEEDS … LIVE
UPDATED -
/ 100 index
READING…
Ten core Earth systems · One live number
Severe
0–19Critical
20–39Stressed
40–54Strained
55–69Active
70–84Nominal
85–100
◉ reading…
CURSOR · awaiting
Day Night Quake Cyclone Wildfire Air Outage Grid

Live conditions

How the ECI works

Each acute system is scored by its live reading against published thresholds (click any system above to see its own): STABLE = 1 · WATCH = ⅔ · DEGRADED = ⅓ · CRITICAL = 0.

The Earth Conditions Index is the plain average across all ten systems, ×100. Every system counts equally. Three ceilings then apply, so that a disrupted system cannot be averaged away by the calm ones: the index cannot read above 84 while any system is degraded, above 69 while any is critical, or above 54 while two are. A feed that cannot be reached is excluded from the average rather than counted as calm.

NOMINAL 85–100 ACTIVE 70–84 STRAINED 55–69 STRESSED 40–54 CRITICAL 20–39 SEVERE 0–19

Sources & licensing

Attribution: U.S. Geological Survey · NOAA (NHC, SWPC, GML) · NASA EONET · GDACS (EC/UN) · Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0) · IMF PortWatch / UN Global Platform · Elexon · Fraunhofer ISE (energy-charts.info) · IODA, Georgia Tech · NSIDC. Data is reproduced and re-scored (a derived work) under each source's licence; howisearth.org is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
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Beyond the index The bigger picture beneath the earth's pulse

Event feed LIVE

USGS · NOAA (SWPC, GML) · NASA EONET · GDACS · Open-Meteo · IMF PortWatch · Elexon · IODA, sampled as each feed refreshes.

Chronic trends

NOAA GML (CO₂) · NSIDC (sea ice) · NASA GISS · NOAA (ocean pH) · FAO (forest) · WWF/ZSL Living Planet Report 2024.

Energy mix REPORTED

19.7 TW CONTINUOUS
≈620 EJ/YR
IEA / Our World in Data, primary energy by source, circa 2024.

Population MODELED

8,234,000,000
PEOPLE ALIVE NOW · +2.45 / SEC NET
Born today-
Died today-
Median age30.9 yr
Urbanized58%
Off-planet11
KARDASHEVK = 0.7276
~19.7 TW of a possible 10,000 TW planetary budget.
UN World Population Prospects base and growth rate, extrapolated per second.

Tech tree HISTORICAL

Dates are the documented historical record; in-progress percentages are editorial estimates.

Achievements · HISTORICAL

First-time milestones from the documented historical record.

Informational use only: a derived summary of public data, provided as-is, with no warranty. It is not an official alert system and must not be used for emergency, safety, navigation, medical, insurance, or financial decisions. For those, rely on the primary sources and your local authorities.