Credits and licences

Faultline is built on public information and open data. This page credits each source and the terms it is used under.

News reporting

Event headlines and summaries are written by Faultline, with Claude (an AI model made by Anthropic), from the facts in public news reports. Every event links to the reports it came from, and the wording, photos and video of those reports belong to their publishers. Sources include BBC News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Times, DW, France 24, UN News, NPR, CBC News, ABC News (Australia), the World Health Organization and NASA. Faultline is not affiliated with any of them.

Hazards, space and the internet

• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: earthquakes (US Geological Survey, public domain).
• GDACS: cyclones, floods, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires from the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System.
• NASA FIRMS: active fires (NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System).
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: aurora forecast and Kp index (public domain).
• IODA: internet disruptions (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis, Georgia Institute of Technology).
• Launch Library 2: upcoming rocket launches, by The Space Devs.
• CelesTrak: satellite orbits.
• NASA JPL: planet positions, spacecraft positions (Horizons) and asteroid close approaches.
• NASA Exoplanet Archive: stars with planets and their systems. The archive is operated by Caltech under contract with NASA.

The Bright side

• Good news: stories from Positive News, Good News Network, Reasons to be Cheerful and The Optimist Daily, summarised in Faultline's own words and linked to the originals.
• UNESCO World Heritage sites: the list comes from Wikidata (CC0); each site links to its UNESCO page.
• Photos: from Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its author and licence where it is shown.
• Summaries of places and galaxies: extracts from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, each linked to its article.

Maps, images and video

• Country shapes: Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas by Mike Bostock (ISC licence).
• Planet, Sun, Moon and Milky Way textures: Solar System Scope, CC BY 4.0, resized for the web.
• Constellations: d3-celestial by Olaf Frohn (BSD licence).
• Live TV: news channels' own live streams, played in YouTube's embedded player. The streams belong to their broadcasters.

Software and fonts

three.js (MIT), globe.gl by Vasco Asturiano (MIT), satellite.js (MIT) and TopoJSON by Mike Bostock (ISC). The fonts Chakra Petch, IBM Plex Sans and JetBrains Mono are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Full licence texts: software and data, Chakra Petch, IBM Plex Sans, JetBrains Mono.

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