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The earthquake app built for Kurdistan

Fast, trustworthy earthquake information in your language, from researchers who study this region every day.

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What Bumelerze does

Illustration from the app's felt-report picker: a calm evening at home, the lowest shaking-intensity level, "not felt".

Live feed

Continuous monitoring, day and night

Bumelerze merges three independent networks (USGS, EMSC, GEOFON) into one live feed you can trust.

Illustration from the app's felt-report picker: a family leaving a shaking home, a stronger shaking-intensity level.

Felt reports

One tap tells us what you felt

Pick the picture closest to what you felt. One tap, works offline, becomes real community data.

Bumelerze SHAKEmaps

Our own SHAKEmaps, computed here

Bumelerze computes its own EMS-98 shaking-intensity maps for earthquakes in the region, including ones no global service ever maps.

Illustration from the app's safety guides: drop, cover, and hold on under a table.

Safety guides

Safety guidance in Kurdish

Plain-language guidance on what to do before, during, and after an earthquake, for Kurdistan's homes and streets.

What it does

One app, four jobs, built for how earthquakes actually happen here

  • Live earthquake feed

    Kurdistan first: earthquakes near you, merged from USGS, EMSC, and GEOFON, big and clear the moment you open the app.

  • One-tap felt report

    “I felt it!”: one tap, in seconds, even offline. Every report builds a real, community picture of how earthquakes feel on the ground.

  • Bumelerze SHAKEmaps

    Our own shaking-intensity maps, computed for earthquakes in the region, including ones no global service ever maps, with sources and review status always shown.

  • Safety guides

    Plain-language guidance for before, during, and after an earthquake, written for Kurdistan's homes and streets, not translated from elsewhere.

How it works, and how to check it

Merged data, our own SHAKEmaps, sources you can check

Every earthquake is checked against three independent networks and merged into one record. For this region, Bumelerze also computes its own SHAKEmaps, not a repost.

Three networks, one entry

USGS, EMSC, and GEOFON each report the same earthquake. Bumelerze merges them into one entry, not three conflicting ones.

Our own SHAKEmaps

For earthquakes in the region, Bumelerze computes its own EMS-98 shaking-intensity maps from ground-motion models and felt reports. Every map states its review status.

The Bumelerze Atlas

A public, browsable catalog of regional earthquakes, so anyone can check what happened and where.

Browse the Atlas

Source code

The app, the SHAKEmap engine, and the data pipeline are open under Apache 2.0.

View the repository

Get Bumelerze

Use it today, on the web

Bumelerze is in active development. The full app runs today as a web app, no install required:

Open the web app

Native iOS and Android apps are next.

Questions, corrections, or feedback: hello@bumelerze.com