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What the station is

A free, public-record broadcast of active hazards on earth. Rebuilt every fifteen minutes from primary sources. No accounts, no trackers, no paywall.

What it is

A neutral aggregator. We republish facts from authoritative upstream sources and link through to them.
A durable record. Dispatch URLs never change, never 404, never redirect once archived.
A citation target. Journalists, researchers, streamers, and emergency staff can rely on these pages because every value is traceable to a hashed source payload.

What it isn't

Not a replacement for official warnings from NWS, NHC, USGS, or local emergency services.
Not an opinion site. The narrative is rule-composed from structured data — no editorial commentary.
Not a paid service. Text-link sponsorship may appear in the sign-off in the future; editorial never reorders.

How to cite

Direct URLs are canonical and stable. Cite the dispatch page, the Atlas page, or the source feed — all three are acceptable.

APA

The Shelter and the Storm. (2026). M 6.1 near Hihifo, Tonga. Retrieved from https://theshelterandstorm.com/events/usgs-us6000sred/

Broadcast attribution

"As reported by The Shelter and the Storm, callsign TSS."

Corrections

Factual errors in dispatches usually originate upstream. When upstream corrects, we pick up the change within fifteen minutes and bump the dispatch revision. When our normalisation or editorial rules are the bug, file a correction at the repo (link lands when we go public) or send a note.

Colophon

Static generator: Astro 5, TypeScript strict.
Hosting: Cloudflare Pages + Workers KV for rate limiting.
Ingest cadence: Every 15 minutes via GitHub Actions.
Typography: Fraunces (display), Source Serif 4 (editorial), JetBrains Mono (data).
Datasets: HURDAT2 (NOAA/NHC), PB2002 (Bird 2003 via fraxen/tectonicplates), plus our own dispatch archive.
Licence: Aggregated metadata CC0. Upstream data retains its original licence — see Sources.
Callsign: W · TSS · Station 137 · established 2026.