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Monitor emergencies worldwide with News API
Benefits
Emergency monitoring features
Emergency monitoring tracks natural disasters, security threats, health crises, and other emergencies worldwide in real time. Organizations can receive instant alerts about breaking emergencies for faster response and better crisis management. Government agencies, humanitarian organizations, security firms, and businesses with global operations use it.
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What you can do
Use our news data whether you're a small business or a large corporation.
SOCIncident-feed integration
Send breaking-news flagged articles into security operations centers alongside threat intel feeds.
TravelTraveler-safety alerts
Alert employees in affected regions when incidents occur in their location.
LogisticsRoute & port disruptions
Watch for port closures, transit incidents, and infrastructure failures affecting active routes.
InsuranceCatastrophe-event tracking
Track natural-disaster and major-incident coverage for parametric-insurance triggers and loss estimation.
GovernmentPublic-emergency communications
Collect emergency communications for relay through municipal and state channels.
MediaBreaking-news desk feed
Feed editorial breaking-news desks with the highest-source-authority articles in the first minutes of an event.
More than 300,000+ sources
Teams around the world use APITube to build digital products.
- Last updated
- 2s ago
- Total sources
- 300.000k
- Requests yesterday
- 27.524
- Articles added yesterday
- 94.645
- Total articles
- 3.88b
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- Emergency monitoring tracks natural disasters, security threats, health crises, and other emergencies worldwide in real time. Organizations can receive instant alerts about breaking emergencies for faster response and better crisis management. Government agencies, humanitarian organizations, security firms, and businesses with global operations use it.
- The system processes news from thousands of sources globally in real time. Breaking emergency news is typically indexed within minutes of publication. The is_breaking flag prioritizes urgent alerts about natural disasters, security incidents, and health emergencies.
- You can monitor natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires), health emergencies (disease outbreaks, pandemics), security threats (terrorist incidents, civil unrest), industrial accidents, severe weather events, environmental disasters, and humanitarian crises. Category and keyword filters let you target specific emergency types.
- Yes, you can track emergencies by specific countries, regions, or cities using location-based filters. This lets you receive alerts only for locations that matter to your operations.
- Sentiment analysis shows whether coverage is positive, negative, or neutral, which helps assess the severity and public perception of crisis situations. Negative sentiment scores often indicate escalating emergencies or worsening conditions. Combine sentiment polarity with breaking news flags to prioritize the most critical alerts.
- Each emergency alert includes: publication timestamp, source credibility (OPR score), geographic location, tone (positive, negative, or neutral), breaking news indicator, category, names and places mentioned, and full article content.
- Yes. The API works with incident management platforms, security operations centers (SOC), and business continuity systems. Export data in JSON, XML, or other formats. Set up webhooks for instant notifications or poll the API at custom intervals. Customers integrate with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and custom dashboards.
- We collect emergency news from verified sources including major wire services, government agencies, established news organizations, and specialized emergency reporting outlets. Use the source.rank.opr filter to prioritize high-credibility sources. OPR (Open Page Rank) scoring helps you receive accurate, trustworthy emergency information.
Features
Get what you need without complexity
Access news articles from thousands of sources.
News API
- Export data in many formats
- Industry Monitoring
- Brand Monitoring
- Market news and trends
- Risk Management
- Competitor news
- Media Monitoring
- Article tone
- Trend Analysis
- Group related articles
- Forecasting social trends
- Multiple languages
- Audience Engagement
- Geographical Analysis
- Real-time Breaking News
- Past articles
- Custom News Feeds
- News Aggregation
- Content Filtering
- Over 50 integrations
Details about each article
- Industries
- Locations
- Persons
- Organizations
- Brands
- Events
- Disasters
- Diseases
- Links
- Media
- Images & Videos
- Hashtags
- Authors
- Source
- Find duplicate articles
- Source rank
- Article Sentiment
- Readability Score
- Detect language
Analysis
- Article tone
- Analysis of public opinion
- Categorization
- Financial Analysis
- Trend Analysis
- Group related articles
- Content Summarization
- Names and places
- Keyword Extraction
- Article topics
- Event Detection
- Names and places
- Text Classification
- Controversy Detection
- Source trust scores
- Engagement Metrics
- Source viewpoints
- Quality Ranking
- Spam Detection
- Emotion Detection
Search filters
- Search by Location
- Search by Date Range
- Search by Source
- Search by Category
- Search by Industry
- Search by article tone
- Search by Story
- Search by source rank
- Search by Language
- Search by name or place
- Search by Keywords
- Combine terms with AND, OR, NOT
- Proximity Search
- Faceted Search
- Range Queries
- Search by Author
- Search by Media Type
- Search by Breaking News
- Search by Read Time
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