WorldTwin · The Daily Brief
Daily Brief — 2026-09-25
What the instruments said. Dated, sourced, and never quietly fixed.
window 2026-09-24T06:47:01Z → 2026-09-25T06:47:01Z
10 of 92 sources reporting · generated 2026-09-25T06:47:01Z
PIPELINE: manifest generated 2026-09-25T06:46:16Z · newest fetch 2026-09-25T06:46:16Z
An enabled source is dark: gdacs_events (since 2026-09-24T23:53:59.502794+00:00).
1 · Largest earthquake · 24 h · USGS
M5.3 — 72 km NW of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea, depth 53.586 km
2 · Highest active GDACS alert
GDACS Orange — Tropical Cyclone, Mexico
3 · Fire detections · 24 h · NASA FIRMS (VIIRS)
3,640 VIIRS fire detections in 24 h — no 7-day median yet — count record since 2026-09-24
4 · Instrument of the day · Internet outages · Cloudflare Radar
Internet outages: none observed in the last 24 h; the Cloudflare Radar feed has not updated since 2026-09-25T05:06:38Z (1.7 h).
5 · Went dark / came back · 24 h delta
Went dark
- gdacs_events — since 2026-09-24T23:53:59.502794+00:00 · last success 24737s ago (>3× grace of 2700s); last error: fetch returned None — kept previous cache
computed against 2026-09-24 · a retired layer is never “dark” — retirement is a dated decision, not a failure