Escrow
a safe place to put what happened

If you are in danger right now, call your local emergency number. Escrow is not an emergency service.

an area of the record

Manila, Manila, Philippines

One person has put something here. Below fifteen reports we publish no aggregate at all, because a count that small can point at a person. 14 to go.

sealed until fifteen

There is a pattern here. It is not ours to publish yet.

The reports in this area are on the map as individual pins, because each survivor chose that. The aggregate — the blocks, the months, the repeat signals — stays closed until fifteen reports make it impossible to read a single person out of it. That is the same rule for a newsroom, a university and a police force.

1 of 15.

for organisations

You cannot buy this area today.

We will not sell Manila, Manila, Philippines until it is above the floor, and no amount of money moves the floor. Leave an address and you will hear on the day it opens.

tell us the place you need

We store the address and the place. Nothing else, and never a survivor’s report.

stand with this area

A note once a week when something changes here.

New pins, a case near you that was confirmed and archived, an area crossing the floor. This is how most survivors find out the map exists — somebody who followed their city sent it to them.