The Data Desk
Living charts from primary American sources — nothing hand-entered, nothing fabricated.
The United States, right now
U.S. national debt
$40.10T
+0.33T vs prior month
MLB runs, last month
3,342
−350 runs vs prior month
MLB best record
Brewers 81-51
League-wide, this season
U.S. earthquakes, last month
49
−4 vs prior month
Economy
U.S. national debt
Total public debt outstanding, last observation of each month, last 24 months.
Sports
MLB runs scored, league-wide
Total runs scored across every MLB regular-season game, by month, this season.
MLB power rankings
Best records league-wide, current regular season.
| Team | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewers | 81 | 51 | .614 | - | L2 |
| Dodgers | 80 | 52 | .606 | - | L1 |
| Rays | 79 | 54 | .594 | - | W1 |
| Braves | 77 | 55 | .583 | - | W2 |
| Cubs | 76 | 58 | .567 | 6.0 | L2 |
| Yankees | 74 | 57 | .565 | 4.0 | L1 |
| Red Sox | 73 | 59 | .553 | 5.5 | W5 |
| Phillies | 74 | 60 | .552 | 4.0 | W1 |
| Padres | 72 | 62 | .537 | 9.0 | W1 |
| D-backs | 71 | 63 | .530 | 10.0 | W2 |
Natural Hazards
Significant U.S. earthquakes
Magnitude 3.5+ earthquakes across the lower 48 states, Alaska, and Hawaii, by month. Alaska accounts for the large majority of months' totals — it's genuinely the most seismically active U.S. state, not a data artifact.
How the Data Desk works
Every chart on this page is built server-side from a live public data feed — no number here is hand-entered or estimated. Charts refresh automatically about once an hour. If a source is unreachable when the page builds, that chart simply doesn’t render rather than showing stale or invented data; check the fetched-at timestamp under any chart to see when it last updated.
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All sources
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data — Debt to the Penny · hourly refresh
- MLB Stats API · hourly refresh
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program · hourly refresh