Zyaku Launches Disaster Alert Following Nepal Flood Crisis

SAN FRANCISCO - Sept. 2, 2026 - PRLog -- Zyaku, a creator-first social platform, has launched Disaster Alert, a new capability designed to help people communicate quickly during emergencies when normal communication infrastructure becomes unreliable. The feature moved into production today, following completed internal testing, and comes in the wake of the catastrophic flash floods that struck Nepal in late August 2026.

The floods, triggered by a major glacial collapse, tore through communities in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, and neighboring districts, destroying roads, bridges, and critical infrastructure. More than a thousand deaths have been reported, with thousands of people still missing, and rescue operations continue to face extremely difficult conditions.

According to the company, Disaster Alert was built around a specific question: when a disaster strikes, how quickly can one person reliably tell others they need help, without needing to find the right contact, post publicly and hope the right person sees it, or navigate a complicated process. The feature is intended to reduce the delay between an emergency occurring and other people becoming aware of it, particularly in situations where standard connectivity or communication channels are disrupted.

The company was explicit that Disaster Alert does not replace emergency services, government disaster response, rescue organizations, or humanitarian agencies, and does not claim to prevent or predict disasters. Rather, the company describes the feature as a way of treating emergency communication differently from ordinary social media activity, so that a request for help does not have to compete with unrelated content in a feed.

"An emergency is not content. A disaster is not engagement," said Rohit Kashyap, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zyaku. "A person asking for help shouldn't have to compete with everything else in a feed."

The company said Disaster Alert is an early step rather than a finished system, and that substantial additional development, testing, and validation will be needed before the feature could operate at the scale of a comprehensive emergency communication network. Zyaku said it is offering the feature publicly now rather than waiting, given the scale of the ongoing crisis in Nepal.

Zyaku previously stated that the specific warning credited with a widely reported evacuation of more than 900 students at a school in Bidur, Nepal, came from a phone call between relatives, and was not connected to Zyaku or any technology company. The company has been explicit throughout its public communications about this disaster that it is not claiming credit for outcomes it was not involved in.

Further information about Zyaku and Disaster Alert is available at https://zyaku.com