Environmental watch
What's in the air, water, and ground around here.
Live environmental OSINT for your community, pulled from public federal feeds — the EPA, the USGS, and the National Weather Service. No account, no tracking; every number links back to its public source. Auto-refreshes about every 30 minutes.
🌎 Environmental watch
Live public data for Merced · updated 4 hr ago · showing last good readingAir quality
84ModerateUS AQI
PM2.5 57μg/m³PM10 62μg/m³Ozone 83μg/m³NO₂ 14μg/m³
Water monitoring
No live streamgage nearby.
Active alerts
- ModerateHeat Advisory
Earthquakes · 30 days
M3.3strongest within 250 km
3 km ESE of Larkfield-Wikiup, CA
16 quakes ≥ M2.5
Sources: Open-Meteo Air Quality, USGS Water Services, National Weather Service, USGS Earthquake Catalog, EPA National Priorities List. All public, no personal data.
Air quality — full readout
US Air Quality Index 84 (Moderate). Observed Oct 1, 10:00 AM.
56.7 μg/m³PM2.5
61.7 μg/m³PM10
83.0 μg/m³Ozone
14.4 μg/m³NO₂
2.2 μg/m³SO₂
319.0 μg/m³CO
Source: Open-Meteo Air Quality ↗
Active weather alerts1
ModerateHeat Advisoryuntil Oct 5, 5:00 AM
Heat Advisory issued October 1 at 9:30AM PDT until October 4 at 10:00PM PDT by NWS Hanford CA
West Side Mountains north of 198; Los Banos - Dos Palos; Merced - Madera - Mendota; Planada - Le Grand - Snelling; Coalinga - Avenal; West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties; Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma; Fresno-Clovis; West Side Mountains South of 198; Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5; Delano-Wasco-Shafter; Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore; Visalia - Porterville - Reedley; Buena Vista; Bakersfield; Southeast San Joaquin Valley; South End San Joaquin Valley; Mariposa Madera Foothills; Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra; Fresno-Tulare Foothills; Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra; South End Sierra Foothills; South End of the Lower Sierra
Source: National Weather Service ↗
Earthquakes — last 30 days16
M2.6↗M2.5↗M2.6↗M3.3↗M2.7↗
6 km W of Yountville, CA
Sep 29, 4:06 PM · 210 km away
2 km SSW of Round Valley, CA
Sep 29, 12:18 PM · 166 km away
26 km WSW of Westley, CA
Sep 27, 2:40 PM · 87 km away
27 km WSW of Westley, CA
Sep 27, 2:21 PM · 87 km away
1 km S of Orange Cove, CA
Sep 24, 3:40 PM · 129 km away
Source: USGS Earthquake Catalog ↗
Superfund sites
99 active EPA Superfund (National Priorities List) sites in CA of 116 ever listed.
Castle Air Force Base (6 Areas)
Merced · NPL Site · 10 km away
The state’s energy ledger
What CA’s grid runs on, its EV fleet and charging network, and where its mandate stands — from the national Energy Ledger.
Open the CA energy dossier →Snapshot generated Oct 1, 5:45 PM (showing last good reading while refreshing). All data is public and carries no personal information.