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About Bumelerze

Bumelerze is an earthquake app and website for Kurdistan and Iraq, in your language. Its name comes from bûmelerze, the Kurdish word for earthquake.

An illustrated family: a grandmother, a father, a girl and a mother.

Why Bumelerze exists

After the ground shakes, people look for news in their own language. Too often they find rumours and false predictions instead. Bumelerze gives clear information from named sources, in plain words, and asks what you felt so the shaking can be mapped. It is built on years of earthquake research in the region.

What guides Bumelerze

  • Trusted sources, sound science

    Data from international networks and scientific catalogues, with sources credited. How it works explains the methods.

  • Your language first

    Sorani, Kurmanji, Arabic and English. Sorani comes first, and places keep their Kurdish names.

  • Your data stays yours

    No ads and no selling of data. An account is optional, and you can download or delete your data.

Where Bumelerze is heading

Next

  • Native apps for iOS and Android
  • Alerts about recorded earthquakes near you and your family

For the longer-term aims, see How it works.

Official channels

These are the only official Bumelerze channels. Anything not listed on this page does not speak for Bumelerze.

Follow Bumelerze

Bumelerze is on Instagram, Facebook and X. Only the accounts linked here are official.

How to spot a fake

  • Bumelerze never predicts earthquakes. A message that predicts one is not from Bumelerze.
  • Bumelerze never asks for money, card details, or your password in a message.
  • The only official social media accounts are the ones linked on this page.

Work with Bumelerze

Bumelerze welcomes partners, institutions and researchers, and translators or native speakers who can review Sorani, Kurmanji or Arabic text. Write to hello@bumelerze.com.