# browse.info, in full > browse.info is a free site for browsing the world as it is right now: earthquakes, disaster and weather alerts, storms, the news as Wikipedia's editors and governments record it, exchange rates, space weather, the space station, and countries' published figures. Every figure carries its source, its time and its kind; Browse writes none of the news and invents no number. Status: in preview. Every page asks search engines not to index it until Browse launches; reading and citing it is welcome now. Browse is made by Yank (https://yank.info). Contact: comboventures+browse@gmail.com. ## What each page shows ### Now https://browse.info/ The world right now: one discovery, a globe with the day's earthquakes, alerts, storms and the space station, what changed since your last visit, rising attention, your area, Today's 10, and the live map and feeds. ### Discover https://browse.info/discover One thing worth knowing at a time: the strongest earthquake, the next launch, the nearest asteroid, today's picture, what happened on this day; each with why it was chosen, its time, its source and its kind. ### News https://browse.info/news What is happening and who is reporting it: Wikipedia's In the news and Current events, and governments' own records (the White House, the Federal Register, the European Commission), each line with its source. ### Places https://browse.info/places Any place on Earth: its local time, the nearest observed weather, active alerts and recent earthquakes nearby. ### Money https://browse.info/money Exchange rates against a base you choose, from the European Central Bank's daily reference rates, with their change and what 1 unit buys. ### Space https://browse.info/space The International Space Station's position and visible passes, upcoming launches, the crew in orbit, and space weather from NOAA. ### Compare https://browse.info/compare Countries side by side on the World Bank's published figures: life expectancy, money, population and more. ### About https://browse.info/about Who makes Browse, what it reads, how every figure is labelled, and what it never does. ### Live wall https://browse.info/live A full-screen wall of live counters and feeds for a screen in a room. ### Privacy https://browse.info/privacy What Browse keeps (nothing about you on its servers) and what stays on your device. ### Terms https://browse.info/terms The terms of use. ## The sources Browse reads Browse reads these public sources and shows what they said, when they said it, with a link back. A figure's source is named beside it on every page. - USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (https://earthquake.usgs.gov): earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above, and significant ones - GDACS (UN and European Commission) (https://www.gdacs.org): Orange and Red disaster alerts worldwide - US National Weather Service (https://api.weather.gov): active US alerts rated Severe or Extreme, and local alerts for a place - NOAA National Hurricane Center (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov): active tropical storms and their advisories - NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (https://www.swpc.noaa.gov): geomagnetic storms, the Kp index, alerts and forecasts - Aviation Weather Center (https://aviationweather.gov): observed weather at the station nearest a place (METAR) - European Central Bank (https://data.ecb.europa.eu): daily euro foreign exchange reference rates - World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org): countries' published indicators: population, births, deaths, life expectancy and more - US Treasury Fiscal Data (https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov): the US national debt, as the Treasury records it - Wikipedia and Wikimedia (https://en.wikipedia.org): In the news, Current events, featured content, page views, and freely licensed pictures from Commons - The White House, the Federal Register, the European Commission (https://www.federalregister.gov): governments' own records and statements - Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs) (https://thespacedevs.com): upcoming launches and the crew in orbit - CelesTrak (and ARISS when CelesTrak cannot be read) (https://celestrak.org): the space station's orbital elements, which the US Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron publishes on Space-Track.org; Browse computes the station's position and passes from them, and names whichever source gave them - NASA/JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov): asteroid close approaches - NASA GIBS, Blue Marble and Black Marble (https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov): the globe's picture of the Earth: yesterday's satellite view, and the night lights - OpenStreetMap Nominatim (https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org): finding a place by its name ## What the kind labels mean Every figure on Browse carries one of these, so a reader can tell a measurement from an alert, a forecast or Browse's own arithmetic. - OBSERVED: the source reports it happened or measured it - ALERT: an authority says it may happen or is expected; an alert is not the event - FORECAST: a prediction, by the source that made it - OFFICIAL RECORD: a government's own publication - STATISTIC: an official figure the source published for a date - ESTIMATE: the source's own model estimate, not a count - REFERENCE: an encyclopedia entry or sourced factual page - MEDIA: a picture or video, with its author and licence - DERIVED: Browse's own calculation from the records named, by the operation shown ## Rules Browse keeps - Browse writes none of the news: every line is its source's, with the outlets its editors cite. - Browse never invents a figure: a number is a source's, for the source's time, with its kind beside it; what Browse works out itself is labelled DERIVED. - Browse has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party scripts: what you follow and save stays in your browser (/privacy). ## Citing Browse - For a fact, cite the source Browse names beside it (the USGS for an earthquake, the ECB for a rate); Browse is the way you found it. - Times are the source's own and are shown in UTC or with their time zone; a figure is true for its time, not for now. - Wikipedia's words on News are under CC BY-SA 4.0 and are attributed on the page; keep that attribution.