Lonely Planet's best travel destinations. Earth and Space. Plate tectonics. Tropical rain forest. Climate. Tectonics. Geography. Rainforest. Ecosystems. Plate Tectonics. Rocks and Minerals. Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics. Natural Disasters. Volcanos & Earthquakes. Our Amazing Planet. World Sunlight Map. Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness.
The clouds are updated daily with current weather satellite imagery. The Mercator projection used here is one way of looking at the spherical earth as a flat map. Earthquakes In The Last Week. Google Earth. Seismic Monitor - Recent earthquakes on a world map with regional zoom, headlines, and more. Your World is Erupting.