How NASA EONET events, SO2 emissions, seismic swarms, and thermal anomalies combine into Brain Dashboard's volcanic hazard score.
🧠 OPEN BRAIN DASHBOARD LIVERight now, four volcanoes are moving. Rincon de la Vieja is venting ash. Masaya's crater lake is heating. Piton de la Fournaise's lava is flowing. Mayon is in unrest. But which one matters most to your region? The answer isn't guesswork—it's math. On the Pandita Data Brain Dashboard, every active volcano on Earth gets a live risk score built from four independent scientific signals that together tell you: Is this volcano waking up, or just breathing?
Volcanic risk assessment requires layered intelligence. A single seismic spike doesn't mean eruption. A burst of SO₂ could signal degassing or magma rise. NASA satellite thermal data can miss shallow heat. That's why the Brain Dashboard weighs four proven indicators:
Sulfur dioxide is volcanic truth-telling. Unlike ash (which can be old or reworked by wind), SO₂ is generated only when fresh magma reaches the upper crust or actively erupts. The Brain Dashboard ingests SO₂ concentration data from MERRA-2 reanalysis and CALIOP lidar observations. A sustained elevation—say, 15+ DU (Dobson Units) above baseline for a volcano—flags magma ascent. This is why SO₂ is weighted separately; it cuts through noise.
The Brain Dashboard ingests USGS Earthquake Hazards Program feeds and pairs them with volcano-specific metadata. When seismicity spikes near Mayon or Piton de la Fournaise, the algorithm asks: Is this shallow (magma-driven) or deep (regional tectonics)? Shallow swarms within 5 km of the summit raise the risk score significantly. Deep quakes are downweighted. This distinction prevents false alarms and catches genuine unrest.
Visit the Brain Dashboard to see live risk scores for every volcano. Hover over Rincon de la Vieja, Masaya, Piton de la Fournaise, or Mayon to see which signal is driving today's score. For city-level vulnerability, check the Disaster Report to see downwind and downslope exposure. Volcanic risk isn't random. It's readable. It's now.
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