Testing and Evaluation Facility

A Testing and Evaluation (T&E) Facility has been set up in Potsdam Germany, as part of the collaboration between Germany and GEM. A T&E planning meeting was held on February 27th 2011 to define the mandate and scope of the facility in further detail.

In the meeting it was decided that the T&E Facility will focus on prospective testing, whereas the Model Facility will take care of retrospective testing, where past data is used to test the models as they are being built. The facility will work on three main areas:

  1. testing of the seismic rate model
  2. prediction of ground motions and hazard
  3. testing of risk forecasts

To download the summary and presentations of that meeting, follow this link.

Exactly 6 months later, another T&E meeting took place. Presentations can already be downloaded here.