Advertising and affiliate disclosure
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QuakeIndex is free to read. This page says how it is paid for, and the rules we hold ourselves to so that money never changes what a page says.
What pays for the site
- Advertising, through Google AdSense. Google chooses the ads; we do not sell placements directly and no advertiser sees or approves our pages. Google and its partners may use cookies to choose ads, as the privacy policy explains, and visitors in the EU and UK are asked for consent first.
- Affiliate links: none. No link on QuakeIndex earns a commission. If that changes, the link will be marked on the page where it appears and listed here before it goes live.
Links to USGS, FEMA, ShakeAlert, the California Earthquake Authority and other agencies are there because they are the source of record or the official advice. None of them pays us, and we do not pay them.
Our rules, which are not negotiable
- Never inside an answer. No ad and no paid link goes inside an earthquake page's answer block or the "was that an earthquake?" answer. Ads sit below or beside the answer, always.
- The data never changes to suit an advertiser. No page will overstate a hazard, a score, or a risk because of what is shown next to it. This is the whole reason the method is published and the score is defined as a description of the past.
- No fear. We do not use urgency or alarm to hold attention, sell anything or raise ad views.
- Marked where it appears. An ad is labelled as an advertisement on the page, not only here.
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