The GEM1 project started in January 2009 is half-way. An internal mid-project review will be held in Pavia, Italy the 8th and 9th of September. See for more information the GEM1 news page.
On the 7th and 8th of September a meeting will take place at the Nanyang Technical University (NTU) in Singapore about the design and development of a regional programme in South-East Asia. This programme will feed into the global earthquake model.
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) held a Seminar the 6th of August 2009, at Berkeley, California, and Rui Pinho was invited to present GEM.
GEM has been invited to join the International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC), in Chengdu, China from 13-15 July. Rui Pinho will present GEM to the participants.
For more information on the event, go to the IDRC website.
Domenico Giardini presented GEM at the International Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Lambesc Earthquake in Aix-en-Provence in France. The Conference was held from 6-8 July 2009.
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Forum Activity
Now that the Hazard Global Components have started, the GEM IT team is busy following up on the IT review and in various regions GEM Programmes are becoming a reality.. more and more questions are arising on best practices, methods and ideas. The GEM Forum serves to discuss about all such issues and various people have started to post questions.. currently on the forum: