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Collaborators of the Earthquake Model for Central Asia (EMCA) programme, coming from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhzstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan followed a training in GEM's open-source calculation software (OpenQuake) at GFZ in Potsdam, Germany.
We are delighted to announce that NLIRO, the Non-Life Insurance Rating Organization of Japan, has joined GEM’s public-private partnership; the first private organisation from Japan.

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..  

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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