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World Today · 2026-10-02

Antwerp, Belgium recorded 518 uploads in the last 24 hours.

24 hours to 02:50 UTC, rebuilt 2026-10-02 02:50 UTC · 1,182 scan uploads · 2 phones · 20 hexes · 36 earthquakes · 72 natural events
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The story of the day

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Overview Phones measured 20 hexes across two cities. The network uploaded 1,182 scans from two phones. The day saw 36 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or higher. Snow covered 16,218,929 km² and sea ice covered 13,657,726 km². Haze was thick over Indonesia and Bangladesh while bright lights shone over Greenland, the United States and Japan.

Where the phones measured Erfurt, Germany contributed 664 uploads and measured 7 hexes. Antwerp, Belgium contributed 518 uploads and measured 13 hexes. Together the phones touched magnetic, BLE, pressure and cellular layers in 23 hexes each and Wi‑Fi in 19 hexes. The two phones scanned 20 hexes total, none of them new.

Sky and planet Snow cover was largest in Antarctica (267,612 km²) and Greenland (254,419 km²). Sea ice was largest off Canada (228,277 km²) and Antarctica (228,207 km²). Haze over Indonesia reached an optical depth of 4.14, making the Sun look dim. The brightest night lights were 8.3 nW/(cm² sr) over Greenland, a city level brightness. Aurora chance is 17 % over Antarctica, a small chance. Space weather is quiet with Kp 2. Earthquakes peaked at magnitude 5.3 near Yōkaichiba, Japan. There are 52 wildfires, including one in San Francisco, Texas, and nine severe storms such as Hurricane Rachel.

Tomorrow, from the history Tomorrow scan uploads are forecast about 914, between 594 and 1234, based on the last 7 days of history. Hexes measured are forecast about 23, between 15 and 32, also from history. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5+ are forecast about 43, between 28 and 57, from historical trends. All these numbers come from the history, not from a new measurement.

Worth opening today

3 things the day's numbers point at.
Wildfire SAN FRANCISCO 2, Starr, Texas
Iceberg D33C (off the coast of Antarctica)
M5.3 0 km NNE of Yōkaichiba, Japan

The numbers

Last 24 hours unless marked. Counts, never identities: no phone, person or device is ever named.
1,182
scan uploads
2
phones mining
20
hexes measured
0
measured for the first time ever
2
places
6
countries this week
3,283
hexes in the atlas, all time
27
countries, all time
36
earthquakes 2.5+, strongest M5.3
72
natural events NASA tracks
2.0
Kp now, quiet; peak 2.0
17%
best aurora chance on Earth
0
speed tests
16,636
active satellites in the catalogue
16M
km² of snow the satellite saw
14M
km² of sea ice
not measured
today
average sea surface, whole ocean
0.08
average haze where measured
52
wildfires tracked
9
severe storms tracked
0
volcanoes erupting
11
floods, dust, ice and snow events

Everything reported, where

Every place, hex, earthquake and event of the day. Tap a chip to filter, then open any line on the 3D Earth or in the Explorer.
The network
Events on the planet
Seen by the satellites, NASA day 2026-10-01
24 days of history recorded so far. The forecast is the recent average nudged by the direction of travel, nothing more. Changes and records compare today against the days before it, never against a window that contains today.
scan uploads1182+19% vs 7 days
phones mining2-53% vs 7 days
hexes measured20-31% vs 7 days
new hexes0-100% vs 7 days
earthquakes 2.5+36-12% vs 7 days
natural events tracked72-2% vs 7 days
peak Kp2-32% vs 7 days
speed tests0-100% vs 7 days
snow-covered km²16218929-7% vs 7 days
sea ice km²13657726-16% vs 7 days
wildfires tracked52-4% vs 7 days
severe storms tracked9+13% vs 7 days
Tomorrow, scan uploadsabout 914594 to 1,234
Tomorrow, hexes measuredabout 2315 to 32
Tomorrow, new hexesabout 107 to 14
Tomorrow, earthquakes 2.5+about 4328 to 57

Past days

Seven days are kept as full reports. A compact row per day is kept forever for the trends.
Sources: Invisible Atlas's own aggregate measurements (counts per hex, never identities); NASA GIBS imagery and layers (public domain, credit requested); NOAA SWPC Kp index and OVATION aurora; USGS earthquakes; NASA EONET events; CelesTrak catalogue (Dr. T.S. Kelso). The narrative is written by an AI model from the numbers on this page and nothing else, through Groq, OpenRouter or 1min.ai; when none answers, a plain template is shown and labelled. Forecasts are computed from the recorded history and are not measurements. Place search uses Photon by komoot in your browser. Privacy.