About

The Doom-O-Meter is a tongue-in-cheek website that aggregates real-world statistics from official scientific sources and maps them onto a completely unscientific doom scale. Do not use this for actual emergency planning.

It started as a way to explore interesting APIs and learn new technology. This is V2 — a complete revamp with a much more dramatic aesthetic, updated data sources, and a standalone architecture that requires no external database.

Data is fetched every 30 minutes via Vercel ISR(Incremental Static Regeneration) — pages are pre-rendered and served from Vercel's global CDN, so you get instant load times with fresh data, no database required.

Data Sources

USGS Earthquake Hazards

Real-time global earthquake count

NASA NeoWs

Near-Earth asteroid tracking

NASA DONKI

Solar flare events (M & X class)

USGS Volcano Hazards

US volcanoes at elevated alert

NOAA GML

Daily atmospheric CO₂ readings (Mauna Loa)

CelesTrak

Tracked space debris count

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

The Doomsday Clock (hardcoded, updated annually)

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