SURVIVEEarthquake Simulator
Most earthquake tools show you a fault line on a regional map. This one starts at your front door. Enter your address and this earthquake simulator maps the walk from your building to the nearest open ground — the real route, on your real streets — then scores whether your household makes it clear of the façades before the first aftershock.
What makes an earthquake different
Earthquakes give no warning and the shaking is over in under a minute, so there is no evacuation — only the first few seconds. That inverts everything. In a fire or a flood you move away from the hazard; in an earthquake the hazard is the building you are standing in, and the most dangerous place is the doorway you instinctively run for. Falling glass and unreinforced façades make the pavement outside more lethal than an interior wall. Your floor number matters more here than in any other disaster: upper floors sway further, but stairwells jam and lifts are unusable, so the calculus of staying put versus getting out flips depending on how high you live. This simulation weighs your floor, your household size and the distance to genuine open ground — not a doorway, not a car park with a building over it.
Frequently asked questions
How does the earthquake simulator use my address?
It geocodes your address once, in real time, to find your building and the nearest genuine open ground, then routes between them on the actual street network. Your address is never stored on our servers, and shared cards carry only a coarse area label.
Should I run outside during an earthquake?
Generally no — and this is where the simulation and real guidance agree. Official advice (drop, cover, hold on) is to stay put and protect yourself from falling objects, because most injuries happen to people moving through a shaking building or stepping into the path of falling façade material. The simulator dramatizes the escape to make the geometry of your street legible; it is entertainment, not emergency advice.
Is this based on a real seismic model?
No. The route and distances are real — drawn from live map data — but the survival score is a dramatized game mechanic, not a structural engineering assessment or a seismic hazard forecast. For real risk information about your area, consult your national geological survey.
Why does my floor number change the result?
Because it genuinely changes the problem. Higher floors experience amplified sway and longer evacuation times once shaking stops, while ground-floor exits put you closest to falling façade debris. The model weighs both rather than assuming lower is always safer.