The earthquake registry
Name the nextearthquake.
Every earthquake the USGS records enters a permanent public registry — and gets a name. Pick a region and a magnitude band, place a standing bid, and when the ground moves there, the entry is yours to name. 50% of net proceeds go to earthquake relief.
- Latest entry
- Live feed
- Regions open
- 17
- Net proceeds → relief
- 50%
- Minimum bid from
- $2
Rotating globe showing recent earthquake epicentres.
Live from the registry
Named as the ground moves.
The registry reads the USGS feed continuously. Every confirmed event becomes a permanent entry with a name, a magnitude, a place and a timestamp. These are the most recent — read live from the public registry API as you sit here.
Connecting to the live registry feed…
How it works
Four steps from a standing bid to a name on the record.
Quake Name is a pre-order registry. You reserve a place in line for an earthquake that hasn't happened yet, in a region and magnitude band you choose. Nothing is decided by us — the USGS feed decides.
Pick a region and a band
Seventeen seismic regions, three magnitude bands each. Alaska's low band moves several times a day; a major-band slot in the Mediterranean might sit for a year.
Place a standing bid
Each slot is a price-ordered queue. Your bid escrows into a program account only you can exit — cancel and take a full refund at any moment before the slot settles.
The ground moves
USGS publishes the event. The registry matches it to your region and band, waits out the confirmation window in case USGS revises it, then settles the slot to the top of the queue.
You name it
Your name goes onto the permanent registry entry, alongside an on-chain deed whose artwork is generated from that quake's own seismic readings. One per quake, and only ever one.
Quake Name does not predict earthquakes and takes no position on when or where one will happen. It names them after the USGS confirms them, using the USGS catalog as the single source of truth.
Open the appThe board
Seventeen regions. Three bands. One queue each.
Every cell below is a standing queue you can join. The figure is the minimum bid to enter; underneath it is how many events the USGS actually recorded in that region and band over the last twelve months.
- LowM2.0 – 4.4
- MidM4.5 – 5.5
- MajorM5.6 +
| Region | LowM2.0 – 4.4 | MidM4.5 – 5.5 | MajorM5.6 + |
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Event counts are the USGS published record for the trailing twelve months — history, not a prediction of what comes next. Minimum bids are set per region and band; the live queue depth and current top bid for each slot are shown in the app.
See every slot in the appWhy names matter
We started naming hurricanes in 1953. The world got much better at remembering them.
Before the name lists, a hurricane was a date and a latitude. After them: Carla, Andrew, Katrina, Maria — recognized across decades, across languages, by people who were never anywhere near them. Memory drives preparation, and preparation saves lives. Earthquakes are the last major natural hazard we still leave nameless.
A name is how an event survives the news cycle. Quake Name gives every recorded earthquake one — permanently, publicly, and on the record.
73yrs
of named hurricanes. Every Atlantic storm since 1953 has entered the public record under a name people can actually repeat.
U.S. Weather Bureau naming lists, 1953
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standing naming conventions for earthquakes. There is no equivalent of the hurricane lists — events are referred to by a date and a place, and only the very largest keep even that.
No international body assigns earthquake names
M1.5
people displaced by earthquakes in an average year. The events we forget by Friday are also the ones we never get around to building for.
IDMC Global Report on Internal Displacement, 5-yr avg
The relief split
50% of net proceeds go to earthquake relief.
The split is applied inside the settlement transaction itself — the relief share never passes through an account we control on its way out. The wallet is public, so the balance and every transfer out of it are checkable by anyone, at any time, without taking our word for it.
- 50% of net
Deeds
Queue settlements, floor claims and treasury sales — the main way an entry finds an owner.
- 50% of net — 100% on PAGER red
Moments (open editions)
On events the USGS rates PAGER red — the level that means widespread casualties — the entire net goes to relief instead of being split.
- 50%
Secondary royalties
The royalty collected whenever a registry piece resells on the marketplace, for as long as it keeps changing hands.
Recipients are established disaster-relief organizations working in the regions the registry names. The rate in force and both wallet addresses are published on the app's relief page.
Start here
The next one is already on its way.
Open the app, find the region that matters to you, and put a name on the record before the ground decides to move.
Bids escrow on-chain and can be cancelled for a full refund at any time before settlement. Quake Name does not predict earthquakes — it names them once the USGS has confirmed them.