How Scarab works

Scarab answers one question: how calm is this city for my dates, and which way is it heading?

Give it a city and your dates. Scarab scores more than a dozen kinds of danger separately, from extreme weather and natural hazards to disease outbreaks, conflict and violent crime. Each is set against published science to estimate the likelihood of death or serious harm to the same person, on one scale from 0 to 10.

One person. An adult in ordinary health who is simply there, taking ordinary care, with no special protection. The same person for every hazard, in every city.

One scale. Every point higher is roughly four times the likelihood of serious harm. The word beside the number, from Clear to Severe, gives it context.

One number. The city's number is its highest hazard reading, never an average. The hazard that set it is marked.

Your dates. Weather and storms read as far as forecasts reach. Earthquakes, outbreaks and conflict read from the latest record. Every card says when it was read.

Plainly, or not at all. When something is dangerous, Scarab says so plainly. When it cannot read something for a city, it says nothing. No guesses. It never says a place is safe, and never tells you what to do about a city.

If no hazard crosses the threshold, Scarab shows no score. The card still tells you what it checked. A calm answer is the most common one. That is the point.

The world, measured. Scarab reads the physical world: satellites, seismic and river networks, weather forecasts and scientific records. Conflict is read from records of events, outbreaks from health reports, and crime from the figures each country publishes. Each is held to defined criteria and brought onto the one scale. No AI scores your card.

Scarab reads more than 5,000 cities, in every country. Where it does not cover a place, it says so.

Information, not advice. Scarab is situational awareness. It does not replace your government's travel advisory: always check it.

Private by design. There is no account. Nothing you search is tied to you. Your saved places stay on your phone.