About Keryx Maps

We're on a mission to keep everyone informed and prepared for natural disasters through real-time data and advanced technology.

Our Mission

To democratize access to critical disaster information by providing real-time monitoring, early warning systems, and comprehensive emergency preparedness tools. We believe that everyone deserves to stay informed about potential threats to their safety and wellbeing, regardless of their location or economic status.

Our Story

Born from Necessity

Keryx Maps was created after recognizing the critical gap in accessible, real-time disaster information. Traditional emergency services and weather apps often provide fragmented data or focus on single disaster types.

We saw the need for a comprehensive platform that could aggregate data from dozens of authoritative sources and present it in an intuitive, actionable format for individuals, families, and organizations.

Sourced from the Authorities

Keryx Maps integrates 45+ data feeds from 25+ trusted sources including USGS, NOAA, NASA, EPA, NWS, GDACS, EMSC, JMA, and dozens of international monitoring agencies. We don't generate alerts of our own — we surface the ones the authoritative sources publish, clearly attributed and timestamped.

Every alert and visualization is tied back to a named source, so you can verify what we're showing and where it came from.

Our Values

Reliability

We prioritize data accuracy and system uptime because people depend on us for critical safety information.

Accessibility

Disaster information should be available to everyone, everywhere. We work to break down barriers to critical safety data.

Innovation

We keep refining how alerts surface, how maps render offline, and how pattern correlations get explored in Labs.

Making a Difference

45+

Data Feeds

From 25+ trusted agencies

24/7

Monitoring

Continuous data ingestion

Global

Coverage

Every continent monitored

Real-time

Updates

Instant notifications

Behind the Product

Keryx Maps is built by RDF Industries, Inc., a small operation with a science background and a deliberate set of tools. We don't run our own seismology lab or weather prediction model — we aggregate from authoritative sources (USGS, NOAA, NASA, EMSC, JMA, GDACS, and the forty-plus others listed below), present the data clearly, and stay out of the way.

Frontier AI as a Force Multiplier

Day-to-day, we work alongside frontier language models for code review, source-paper synthesis, and pattern-finding. Treating these as tools — not stand-ins for primary sources — lets a small team move at a scale that used to require a much larger one.

The science background and the primary literature stay the authority. AI is leverage, not the source.

Labs is Where the Experimental Work Lives

We're building machine-learning tooling to look at pattern correlations across hazard types — solar activity vs. seismic events, magnetic field anomalies vs. aurora latitude shifts, and others.

None of this is presented as accepted science. Everything in Labs is flagged experimental, and we're explicit about which signals are exploratory and which are confirmed.

Our Technology

🔒 Security & Privacy

  • • TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest
  • • AES-GCM-256 + device-derived key for sync (end-to-end)
  • • GDPR + CCPA compliant
  • • Privacy by architecture, not just policy
  • • You can't compel data that was never created

📊 Data Processing

  • • 45+ data feeds from 25+ sources, polled on per-source cadences
  • • PostGIS for spatial queries and bounding-box matching
  • • Per-source dedup, cross-source aggregation, and per-batch alert consolidation
  • • Experimental ML pattern-finding in Labs

🌐 Infrastructure

  • • Cloudflare CDN edge delivery for static assets and map tiles
  • • Primary data plane on DigitalOcean (single region)
  • • 99.9% infrastructure uptime SLA
  • • Encrypted automated backups with point-in-time recovery

Data Sources & Attributions

Keryx Maps is built on open and authoritative data sources. We gratefully acknowledge the organizations and communities that make high-quality geographic and disaster data freely available.

🗺️ Base Map & Geographic Data

OpenStreetMap: Our base map layer uses OpenStreetMap data, which we enhance with additional data sources providing our users with the most complete map and routing system.

© OpenStreetMap contributors - Base map data from OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org)

SimpleMaps: World map SVG data for aurora visibility visualization (MIT license).

GeoNames: City names, coordinates, and geographic features (CC-BY 4.0).

geoBoundaries: Country and administrative boundaries (CC-BY 4.0).

Overture Maps Foundation: Points of interest data integrated into our offline map index (overturemaps.org, CDLA-Permissive 2.0).

🔬 Scientific Data Sources

USGS: Earthquake and geological data

NOAA: Weather, climate, and space weather

NASA: Satellite imagery and space weather

EPA: Environmental monitoring data

NWS: National Weather Service alerts

GDACS: Global Disaster Alert and Coordination

EMSC: European earthquake information

JMA: Japan Meteorological Agency

FIRMS: NASA fire detection system

NCEI: Climate and historical disaster data

SWPC: Space Weather Prediction Center

Avalanche.org: US avalanche forecasts (NAC member centers — CAIC, NWAC, UAC, BTAC, GNFAC, SAC and more). Forecasts courtesy of each issuing center; see avalanche.org.

Avalanche Canada: Canadian avalanche forecasts (BC, AB, Parks Canada, Avalanche Québec, Kananaskis Country). See avalanche.ca.

Plus regional and specialized monitoring services — see the full list.

All data sources are used in compliance with their respective licenses and terms of service. For complete licensing information and data usage policies, please visit our Terms of Service.

Join the Effort

Whether you're an individual staying prepared, a family coordinating across devices, or a group (CERT team, ham radio club, search-and-rescue, faith-based preparedness network) looking for shared licenses, there's a fit for you.