Who funds earthquake research?

We count 134 funded earthquake projects, active between 2019 and 2032, from 5 funders. The most came from EU · MSCA (45 projects), EU · ERC (39 projects) and NSF · GEO (18 projects). The median award is $446K, across the 131 of 134 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

134

Funders

5

Median award

$446K

Open calls now

1

Top funders of earthquake research

Projects whose title or summary mentions earthquake. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open earthquake funding calls

1 open call mentions earthquake today.

• NERC urgency funding
  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Up to £100,000Deadline: Not listed
  Real odds: About 1 in 4 funded (23% · Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), all funding decisions, 2024-25)

Real odds

• About 1 in 4 funded · 23% · Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), all funding decisions, 2024-25 · UKRI investment and outputs data, table 2.1

Published success rates for the programs behind the open calls above: the share of applications the funder funded, program-wide, not for this topic.

Funded earthquake projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Quantifying the effects of earthquake-induced landslides on mountain erosion and organic carbon mobilization
  NSF · GEO · $682,771 · ends 2031
• Collaborative Research: GEER - Collecting and Archiving AI-ready Perishable Data for Geotechnical Engineering Natural Hazards Research
  NSF · ENG · $1,633,151 · ends 2031
• CAREER: A Computational Framework for Rare-Event Resilience Planning and Education in Infrastructure Systems
  NSF · ENG · $616,762 · ends 2031
• Collaborative Research: Seismic Experiment for Eastern Aleutian Subduction Tremor and Earthquake Research
  NSF · GEO · $526,026 · ends 2030
• GENERATE 2: Translating, Displacing, and Mapping Intersectional Disaster Justice
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £601,402 · ends 2030
• CAREER: Coordinated Geochronology: A toolkit for revealing Earth's impact history and a new laboratory "field" course paradigm
  NSF · GEO · $874,603 · ends 2030
• Quake4D renewal project
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £584,166 · ends 2030
• Seismic Performance of Tunnels in Rock
  NSF · ENG · $749,392 · ends 2029
• Multivariate Marked Point Process Fusion and Statistical Emulation for Uncertainty Quantification in Geophysical Extremes
  NSF · MPS · $192,147 · ends 2029
• Stochastics for generative modeling and applications to inverse problems
  NSF · MPS · $209,660 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “earthquake or earthquakes or seismic”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.