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Daily Brief — 2026-09-25

What the instruments said. Dated, sourced, and never quietly fixed.
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
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · observed 2026-09-24T23:30:28Z · fetched 06:44 UTC · Public domain (US Government)
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2 · Highest active GDACS alert

GDACS Orange — Tropical Cyclone, Mexico
GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, JRC) · observed 2026-09-24T21:00:00Z · fetched 23:53 UTC · CC-BY 4.0
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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
NASA FIRMS (VIIRS SNPP) · observed 2026-09-25T06:00:00Z · fetched 06:04 UTC · NASA open data
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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).
Cloudflare Radar · observed 2026-09-25T05:06:38Z · fetched 05:06 UTC · CC BY-NC 4.0
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5 · Went dark / came back · 24 h delta

Went dark
computed against 2026-09-24 · a retired layer is never “dark” — retirement is a dated decision, not a failure