Introduction to GEM
The GEM Foundation is a public-private partnership that drives a collaborative effort aimed at developing and deploying tools and resources for earthquake risk assessment worldwide. Hundreds of organisations and individual experts, professionals and practitioners are working together on uniform global databases, methodologies, tools and open-source software.
 Founders and sponsors from the private sector [Munich Re, Zurich Financial, AIR Worldwide, Willis, Eucentre, FM Global Hannover Re, Nephila], together with public participants and associate organisations make up the private-public partnership. Read more about them, our mission and what we do to achieve it. Follow the latest GEM developments through the homepage RSS feed
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HighlightGEM NEXUS New (interim) outputs of GEM global projects awaiting your feedback... Online Building Taxonomy Glossary: contribute and send us your building (attribute) photos for the terms of your interest. Read also the related post GMPEs reports published: share your views on the deliverables and progress of the project. Data collection guidelines for GEM's consequences database: what are your experiences with earthquake consequences data?  OPENQUAKE Over a 100 users from at least 42 countries have started to work with GEM's calculation software, from Afghanistan to Costa Rica. Most of them through the web-based OATS service, in order to test the software, but also to do first real hazard (and risk) assessments, for example at country level.  |
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