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Week 3 of Summer into AI 2026 hosted by @advisoryhour — theme: Data.Punk.
Every 60 seconds, a rotating globe updates with every M2.5+ earthquake from the past 24 hours — each one plotted at its exact coordinates, color-coded by magnitude. Claude reads the USGS feed and delivers a live planetary briefing in documentary voice. This is what government data looks like when you actually build something with it.
How the AI works
USGS live feed — Every 60 seconds the app pulls the USGS M2.5+ earthquake feed for the past 24 hours. All public, all federal, no API key required. Every quake gets plotted at its exact latitude and longitude.
Claude streaming briefing — The seismic data is sent to claude-sonnet-4-6 which streams a 4–5 sentence planetary status report in real time, nature documentary style. The text types itself onto the screen as Claude generates it.
ElevenLabs voice narration — Once the briefing is complete, the full text is sent to ElevenLabs and plays back automatically — turning the earthquake data into a live broadcast you hear, not just read.
Orthographic globe with D3-geo — D3's geoOrthographic projection renders real country borders from Natural Earth data. Hover any earthquake dot to see the USGS place name and depth. M5+ events get permanent labels with leader lines.
How to play
Open the demo — the globe starts spinning with real country borders and today's earthquakes already plotted
Read the magnitude color scale: green = M2.5, yellow = M3, orange = M4, red = M5, crimson = M6+. Pulsing rings mark the big ones.
Hover any dot to see the exact USGS location name and depth in km
Click anywhere to unlock audio, then wait for the 60-second cycle — Claude's briefing streams in, then ElevenLabs narrates it aloud
Where to play
Demo: demo-04-earth-pulse.vercel.app
Code & README: github.com/GlimmerForge/summer-into-ai → demo-04-earth-pulse/README.md
Summer into AI 2026 · Theme 3: Data.Punk
Original source
Canonical Substack URL: https://jakestrait5.substack.com/p/summer-into-ai-2026-earth-pulse.