Mission
To support earthquake risk reduction by making state-of-the-art and reliable information on seismic risk around the globe accessible to organisations and individuals worldwide.
Vision
GEM will provide a basis for comparing earthquake risks across regions and across borders, and thereby be the necessary first step towards increased awareness and actions that reduce earthquake risk. GEM tools will be usable at the community, national and international level for uniform earthquake risk evaluation and as a defensible basis for risk mitigation plans. GEM will provide tools to calculate both social and economic losses, and to calculate scenarios to enable cost/benefit analysis of mitigating actions, such as systematic building strengthening, and to facilitate insurance and alternative risk transfer.
A mosque destroyed by an earthquake in Balakot, Pakistan. GEM will produce tools and software available to everyone to support risk mitigation activities worldwide, including the creation of funds and insurances where that has not been possible before.