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.

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Version 1.0 of GEM Basic Building Taxonomy (beta) released

January 10, 2012
A global taxonomy of buildings is of critical importance for the development of homogeneous global databases in GEM. The taxonomy team of the O&T Global Component project released V1.0 of the GEM Basic Building Taxonomy - beta yesterday. Download the report and provide your feedback now..  

Testing and Evaluation Meeting: presentations uploaded

December 16, 2011
The presentations of the Testing and Evaluation meeting that was held on the 27th of October have been uploaded - click here to see them. If you have comments or ideas on Testing & Evaluation within the context of GEM, leave them for us on GEM Nexus. 
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GEM guest at trilateral meeting in Harbin

December 5, 2011
  From November 25th to Novermber 28th, GEM's Hazard Coordinator Marco Pagani attended as a guest scientist the 1st annual meeting of the strategic Chinese-Korean-Japanese Cooperative Programme: Seismic Hazard Assessment for the next Generation Map in Harbin, China.
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