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A few reach far below.", "lede": "Of the 8,556 cataloged magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes in this 2025 USGS snapshot, 81.1% were shallower than 70 km and 3.3% reached at least 300 km.", "takeaway": "The depth groups contain 6,942 shallow, 1,328 intermediate and 286 deep events. The deepest in this selection is 669.556 km. These counts describe the selected catalog events, including aftershocks; they do not measure shaking risk, energy or human impacts.", "alt": "Pacific-centered schematic map and longitude–depth plot of 8,556 cataloged magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes in 2025, colored by depth: 81.1% shallow, 15.5% intermediate, 3.3% deep. The lower panel collapses latitude.", "topic": "earth", "coverage": "Worldwide USGS ComCat earthquakes with preferred magnitude ≥4.5 and origin time from 1 January 2025 inclusive to 1 January 2026 exclusive, UTC.", "methodNotes": "Preserve every returned USGS CSV row, including aftershocks; assert unique IDs, reviewed status, required values, magnitude ≥4.5, nonnegative depth and the half-open 2025 UTC interval. Rename key fields and add event links. Classify depth into [0,70), [70,300) and [300,infinity) km, with shares divided by all 8,556 selected events.", "statusNotes": [ "This is the cataloged magnitude ≥4.5 selection, not all global earthquakes. Detection, catalog practices, magnitude types and location precision vary; uniform global completeness is not claimed.", "Aftershocks are included, so events are not independent tectonic episodes. Preferred magnitude types and contributing network/source fields are retained; magnitude is not converted to energy.", "Some depths may be constrained or defaulted. Error fields remain in the CSV, while plotted point estimates omit uncertainty intervals. Source precision does not establish physical certainty; future catalog revisions can change values or threshold membership.", "The map is a schematic longitude–latitude coastline view, not an equal-area projection. The lower panel collapses all latitudes into longitude versus depth; it is not a physical cross-section and cannot establish slab dip or layer thickness. Horizontal and vertical distances are not to scale.", "All points have equal marker area; color represents depth rather than magnitude and overlaps hide points. Depth ranges are shallow <70 km, intermediate 70–<300 km, and deep ≥300 km.", "All 8,556 events have reviewed status in this snapshot. The independent API count matches the CSV, below the 20,000-event ceiling; origin times are explicitly checked to be before the end boundary. Rounded image percentages sum to 99.9%.", "Credit USGS ANSS ComCat and contributing seismic networks. Coastline: Natural Earth. 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Sub-Saharan Africa’s share of that estimated gap rose from 37.7% to 88.1%.", "takeaway": "The reconstructed count in sub-Saharan Africa rose from about 506 million to 579 million even while its access rate improved from 25.7% to 55.1%. The rest-of-world estimate fell from about 836 million to 78 million. Population growth is mathematically relevant, but these comparisons do not isolate causes.", "alt": "WDI-derived estimates of people without electricity from 2000 to 2024: sub-Saharan Africa rises from about 506 million to 579 million, while the rest of the world falls from about 836 million to 78 million.", "topic": "energy", "coverage": "World Bank countries/economies and aggregates, 1960–2025; access observations 1990–2024; chart uses World and Sub-Saharan Africa aggregates for every year 2000–2024.", "methodNotes": "Use WDI World (WLD) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSF, all income levels) aggregates. Estimate population without access as population × (1 − access_pct/100), then subtract SSA from World for the rest of the world. Use all 25 complete shared annual observations from 2000 through 2024, with no smoothing or summing overlapping aggregates.", "statusNotes": [ "These are approximate WDI-derived counts reconstructed from separately maintained population and access series, not official published SDG7 headcounts. Access coverage and population vintages can differ, so reconstruction can differ from SDG7 report totals.", "Source access estimates can be survey-based or modeled. No uncertainty intervals are supplied here; point estimates are not exact counts.", "Electricity access does not measure uninterrupted supply, reliability, affordability, consumption or equal household service. Regional aggregates hide within-region variation.", "Population growth can offset improving access rates mathematically; the chart does not isolate causal drivers. 2000 is an interpretable start-of-century baseline, and 2024 is the latest shared access year.", "The full CSV retains 17,556 entity-year records for 1960–2025, including blanks. Access values are available for 1990–2024; blank 2025 access fields do not mean zero access. Aggregates overlap and must not be summed.", "The 14 October 2026 source-2 WDI snapshot reports an 8 October 2026 update. Data are CC BY 4.0 with World Bank additional terms; preserve attribution, changes and licensing links, with no endorsement implied." ], "sources": [ { "name": "World Bank SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset via WDI metadata", "url": "https://databank.worldbank.org/metadataglossary/world-development-indicators/series/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS" }, { "name": "WDI total-population metadata", "url": "https://databank.worldbank.org/metadataglossary/world-development-indicators/series/SP.POP.TOTL" } ], "snapshotDate": "2026-10-14", "image": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_gap.png", "previewImage": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_gap_mobile.png", "fullImage": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_gap.png", "width": 2520, "height": 1890, "fullWidth": 2520, "fullHeight": 1890, "imageSha256": "ab52aa66fb85bf50ca8457e4b8f4481ccab68241ff62abbd2a2f28a617e18304", "fullImageSha256": "ab52aa66fb85bf50ca8457e4b8f4481ccab68241ff62abbd2a2f28a617e18304", "datasetUrl": "/datasets/electricity-access-gap/", "chartUrl": "/insights/electricity-access-gap/", "readme": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/README.md", "methodNotesUrl": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/README.md", "downloads": [ { "label": "electricity_access_1960_2025.csv", "url": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_access_1960_2025.csv", "format": "text/csv", "name": "electricity_access_1960_2025.csv" }, { "label": "chart_data.csv", "url": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/chart_data.csv", "format": "text/csv", "name": "chart_data.csv" }, { "label": "electricity-access-gap.zip", "url": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity-access-gap.zip", "format": "application/zip", "name": "electricity-access-gap.zip" }, { "label": "electricity_gap.png", "url": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_gap.png", "format": "image/png", "name": "electricity_gap.png" }, { "label": "electricity_gap_mobile.png", "url": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_gap_mobile.png", "format": "image/png", "name": "electricity_gap_mobile.png" } ], "mobileImage": "/downloads/electricity-access-gap/v1/electricity_gap_mobile.png", "mobileWidth": 1080, "mobileHeight": 1620, "mobileImageSha256": "e3033e7295d0742e5b1dd51a6e56150a8927ebc632f723d89cbee2154bd3b5e3", "topicLabel": "Energy", "reddit": { "score": null, "comments": null, "verifiedAt": null, "postUrl": null, "subreddit": null } }, { "id": "football-age", "title": "How old are the players getting the minutes?", "lede": "Strasbourg's 2024/25 side had a minutes-weighted recorded age of 20.6 years, the youngest of 2,814 club-seasons. Lille 2017/18 was next at 22.0, and Chievo 2016/17 was oldest at 30.7.", "alt": "Scatter plot of minutes-weighted recorded ages for 2,814 club-seasons across five European leagues, 1996/97–2024/25. Strasbourg 2024/25 is youngest at 20.6 years, Lille 2017/18 next at 22.0 and Chievo 2016/17 oldest at 30.7. The seasonal median remains near 26.", "topic": "sport", "coverage": "Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, 1996/97–2024/25. Domestic league minutes only.", "snapshotDate": null, "methodNotes": "For each included club-season, divide the sum of recorded season age multiplied by league minutes by total league minutes. Require at least 25,000 valid player-minutes. Include goalkeepers; exclude cups and national teams.", "statusNotes": [ "Youngest and oldest refer only to this five-league file and period, not an all-time European record.", "Recorded season ages are not exact matchday ages. Around 90% of Strasbourg’s included minutes went to players with a recorded age under 23.", "The chart uses Meplar’s stored Transfermarkt-derived snapshot. The documented current upstream is a different release, and the historical player-level input is not included in this download.", "This ZIP is the published football-age analysis subset, not the complete European-football player dataset." ], "image": "/downloads/football-age/v1/football_age.png", "fullImage": "/downloads/football-age/v1/football_age.png", "width": 3400, "height": 2360, "imageSha256": "c27ad74757ac861c00b2aa7904c6c70a8f9989450ccfaed0b676a87732e57b63", "datasetUrl": "/datasets/european-football/", "chartUrl": "/insights/football-age/", "readme": "/downloads/football-age/v1/README.txt", "methodNotesUrl": "/downloads/football-age/v1/methodology.md", "sources": [ { "name": "Meplar’s stored Transfermarkt-derived snapshot", "url": "https://meplar.com/charts/football-age/", "notes": "Historical analysis snapshot; current documented upstream is a different release." }, { "name": "Documented upstream release", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/davidcariboo/player-scores", "notes": "This URL describes the upstream, not the exact historical analysis input." }, { "name": "Collection project", "url": "https://github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets" } ], "downloads": [ { "label": "Football-age analysis ZIP", "url": "/downloads/football-age/v1/football_age_analysis.zip", "format": "application/zip", "name": "Football-age analysis ZIP" }, { "label": "Club-season summaries CSV", "url": "/downloads/football-age/v1/club_season_age.csv", "format": "text/csv", "name": "Club-season summaries CSV" }, { "label": "Season medians CSV", "url": "/downloads/football-age/v1/season_summary.csv", "format": "text/csv", "name": "Season medians CSV" }, { "label": "Full chart PNG", "url": "/downloads/football-age/v1/football_age.png", "format": "image/png", "name": "Full chart PNG" } ], "topicLabel": "Sport", "reddit": { "score": null, "comments": null, "verifiedAt": null, "postUrl": null, "subreddit": null } }, { "id": "global-co2-growth", "title": "CO₂ grew more slowly. Its level still rose.", "lede": "NOAA’s estimated within-year CO₂ increase slowed from 3.76 ppm in 2024 to 2.06 ppm in 2025. The 2025 annual mean still reached 425.62 ppm.", "takeaway": "The within-year increase was 45.2% smaller in 2025, but it remained positive. The annual mean was the highest in this available 1979–2025 global marine-surface mean series. This is a statement about the instrumental dataset, not a geological record.", "alt": "Two NOAA global CO₂ panels: the annual mean rises to 425.62 ppm in 2025, while the estimated within-year increase falls from 3.76 ppm in 2024 to 2.06 ppm in 2025, with reported uncertainty.", "topic": "climate", "coverage": "Global marine-surface measurements; chart 1980–2025; growth series 1959–2025 and annual means 1979–2025.", "methodNotes": "Retain NOAA’s distinct annual-mean and within-year-growth metrics. Ignore raw CSV comment lines, rename fields and outer-join one row per year. Keep all 67 growth years with blank means before 1979; chart all 46 years 1980–2025. No interpolation, smoothing or outlier removal is used.", "statusNotes": [ "Within-year increase is an estimated start-to-end-of-year concentration change in ppm; it is not a percentage, emission mass, or the difference between consecutive annual means. The 2025 difference between annual means is 2.83 ppm and is not substituted for the 2.06 ppm growth estimate.", "NOAA reports growth uncertainty as a 68% interval; plotted whiskers are the value plus or minus that reported uncertainty. Growth is 3.76 ± 0.11 ppm in 2024 and 2.06 ± 0.08 ppm in 2025.", "The 2025 annual mean is 425.62 ± 0.05 ppm. Annual-mean uncertainty is network-derived and narrower than the desktop line width; the mobile chart shows growth whiskers and accompanies these full notes.", "NOAA’s webpage and CSV describe different bootstrap ensemble sizes. Supplied uncertainties are preserved rather than recomputed, and no formal significance test is claimed.", "Growth reflects net human and natural additions and removals, not fossil emissions alone. Earlier growth uses a Mauna Loa/South Pole approximation; 1980 starts the modern global-network growth series. Partial 2026 is excluded and source values may be revised.", "Citation: Lan, X., Tans, P. and K.W. Thoning, Trends in globally-averaged CO₂ determined from NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory measurements, version 2026-10, doi:10.15138/9N0H-ZH07. 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