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Daily Brief — 2026-09-29

What the instruments said. Dated, sourced, and never quietly fixed.

window 2026-09-28T06:47:01Z → 2026-09-29T06:47:01Z 16 of 93 sources reporting · generated 2026-09-29T06:47:01Z

PIPELINE: manifest generated 2026-09-29T06:46:33Z · newest fetch 2026-09-29T06:46:33Z

GDACS holds a Red alert: GDACS Red — Tropical Cyclone, Mexico.

1 · Largest earthquake · 24 h · USGS

M5.4 — north of Svalbard, depth 10 km

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · observed 2026-09-28T13:22:39Z · fetched 06:44 UTC · Public domain (US Government)
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2 · Highest active GDACS alert

GDACS Red — Tropical Cyclone, Mexico

GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, JRC) · observed 2026-09-29T03:00:00Z · fetched 06:39 UTC · CC-BY 4.0
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3 · Fire detections · 24 h · NASA FIRMS (VIIRS)

3,673 VIIRS fire detections in 24 h — no 7-day median yet — count record since 2026-09-24

NASA FIRMS (VIIRS SNPP) · observed 2026-09-29T04:51:00Z · 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 2026-09-29T05:06:39Z (1.7 h).

Cloudflare Radar · observed 2026-09-29T05:06:39Z · fetched 05:06 UTC · CC BY-NC 4.0
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5 · Went dark / came back · 24 h delta

No enabled source went dark or came back in this window.

computed against 2026-09-28 · a retired layer is never “dark” — retirement is a dated decision, not a failure