
Global Seismic Risk Map 2023
OVERVIEW
This year, the UNDRR’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction highlights the critical link between disasters and inequality. Unequal access to financial resources and insurance often exposes the vulnerable to disaster risks. Conversely, disasters can worsen disparities, plunging the marginalized into deeper poverty.
The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation through its groundbreaking earthquake hazard and risk maps presented at the GEM Conference in June 2023, is taking significant strides to address this issue. These maps provide vital insights into the variation of risk around the world, thus equipping risk managers, insurers, engineers, building regulators, and community planners with information to inform risk reduction measures by improving building safety and land use, enhancing earthquake preparedness, and incentivising risk transfer mechanisms such as insurance.
SPEAKERS & PANELISTS
Session Title

John Schneider
Secretary
General

Ahmet Bu?ra Ceyhan
Claims and Catastrophe Project Management Specialist

Sonia Talwar
Session 1 Moderator

Mami Mizutori
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,
Head

Intro Panel Moderator:
Michael Ewald (SwissRe)
Panelists: Nilesh Shome, Jay Guin, Mustafa Erdik,
Sinan Akkar,
Jaime Abad
Perez

Marco Pagani
Hazard Team Coordinator

Iain Stewart
Introduction
Moderator
Posters and demos presenters

Vitor Silva
Risk Team Coordinator

Sinan Akkar
Turk Reinsurance Inc.,
Principal Catastrophe Modeler (keynote speaker)

Catalina Yepes
Seismic Risk Engineer
AGENDA
Time | Topic | Speaker | Role | Organisation |
---|---|---|---|---|
13:00-13:10 | Introductory remarks | John Schneider | Secretary
General | GEM |
13:10-13:15 | Opening Address (video message) | Mami Mizutori | United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,
Head | United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction |
13:15-13:20 | Introduction to the presentations | Iain Stewart | Introduction
Moderator | Royal Scientific Society, Jordan |
13:20-13:50 | Lessons learned from the 2023 Kahramanmara?, T�rkiye earthquakes: Modeling aspects of insured portfolio losses | Sinan Akkar | Turk Reinsurance Inc.,
Principal Catastrophe Modeler (keynote speaker) | Turk Reinsurance Inc.,
Principal Catastrophe Modeler (keynote speaker) |
13:50-14:20 | DASK National Insurance perspective of Turkey EQ | Ahmet Bu?ra Ceyhan | Claims and Catastrophe Project Management Specialist | DASK |
14:20-15:00 | Intro Discussion Panel: Lessons learned regarding post-earthquake impact assessment | Intro Panel Moderator:
Michael Ewald (SwissRe)
Panelists: Nilesh Shome, Jay Guin, Mustafa Erdik,
Sinan Akkar,
Jaime Abad
Perez | ||
15:00-15:10 | Flash introductions of poster and demo session | Posters and demos presenters | ||
15:10-15:40 | Coffee break - Posters and demonstrations | |||
15:40-15:50 | Session 1: What has been developed? | Sonia Talwar | Session 1 Moderator | NRCan |
15:50-16:30 | Update of the Global Hazard Model | Marco Pagani | Hazard Team Coordinator | GEM |
16:30-17:10 | Update of the Global Risk Model | Vitor Silva | Risk Team Coordinator | GEM |
17:10-17:30 | Launch of the Earthquake Scenarios Database | Catalina Yepes | Seismic Risk Engineer | GEM |
17:30-18:00 | Discussion Panel 1: Development and use of the Global earthquake models | Panel 1 Moderator:
Helen Crowley (Eucentre)
Panelists: Vitor Silva, Marco Pagani, Chung-Han Chan, Paul Della Marta,
Daniela
Di Bucci | ||
18:00-19:30 | Aperitivo | |||
Session 2: How has it been used? (June 14th, morning) | ||||
9:00-9:10 | Introduction: Session 2 | Joerg Steffensen | Session 2
Moderator | Hannover Re |
9:10-09:40 | Keynote Lecture: Landscape of DRR initiatives - past, present and future | Alanna Simpson | Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist (keynote speaker) | World Bank Group |
9:40-09:55 | Canadian Earthquake Risk Model | Tiegan Hobbs | Research Scientist | Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) |
09:55-10:10 | Colombia Earthquake Hazard model + Cali | Miguel Mora | Seismic Risk Engineer | I+R Consultores en Ingenier�a y Riesgos |
10:10-10:25 | Urban Seismic Risk Assessment | Tso-Chien Pan | Founding Executive Director | Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management-NTU |
10:25-10:55 | Coffee break | |||
10:55-11:10 | Application to insurance/financial risk modelling | Crescenzo Petrone | Executive
Director | Gallagher Re, |
11:10-11:25 | Mitigating Risks in Georgia's Emergency Facilities: Arup and GEM's Collaborative Risk Assessment | Angelica Zanichelli | Arup,
Structural
Engineer | Arup |
11:25-11:40 | Site-specific seismic hazard assessment for nuclear and hydropower facilities in France | Paola Traversa | Seismologist | Electricit�
de France (EdF) |
11:40-12:20 | Discussion Panel 2: Using GEM products to make a difference | Panel 2 Moderator:
Laurie Johnson (Laurie Johnson Consulting)
Panelists: Alanna Simpson, Tiegan Hobbs, Miguel Mora, Tso-Chien Pan, Crescenzo Petrone, Angelica Zanichelli, Paola Traversa | ||
12:20-14:00 | Lunch break - Posters and Demonstrations | |||
Session 3: Where are we going? (June 14th, afternoon) | ||||
14:00-14:05 | Introduction: Session 3 | Lindsay Davis | Session 3
Moderator | USGS/USAID, |
14:05-14:20 | Triggered or secondary effects: Tsunami | Stefano Lorito | Researcher | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) |
14:20-14:35 | Triggered or secondary effects: Liquefaction | Ellen Rathje | Professor | University of Texas at Austin, Geotechnical Engineering |
14:35-14:50 | Triggered or secondary effects: Landslide | Farrokh Nadim | Technical Director | NGI � Norwegian Geotechnical Institute |
14:50-15:10 | Incorporation of NASA products in global hazard and risk assessment | Shanna McClain | Disasters
Program Manager | NASA |
15:10-15:40 | Coffee break | |||
15:40-16:10 | Keynote Lecture: International Macroseismic Scale | David Wald | Research Geophysicist (Keynote speaker) | United States Geological Survey (USGS) |
16:10-16:25 | Systemic or cascading infrastructure risk | Astha Poudel | Systemic Risk Researcher | Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki |
16:25-16:40 | Using GEM products to support rapid loss assessment | Alberto Michelini | Director of Research
| Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) ARISTOTLE |
16:40-16:55 | Future Exposure and Risk to natural hazards | Alejandro Calderon | Seismic Risk
Engineer | GEM |
16:55-17:25 | Closing Discussion Panel: The role of GEM to 2030 | Closing Panel Moderator:
John Schneider (GEM)
Panelists:: Laurie Johnson, Sibylle Steimen, Kishor Jaiswal, Jenty Kirsch-Wood, Matthias Schmid, Sangeeta Singh | ||
17:25-17:30 | Final Wrap/Closing | Jorg Steffensen | Hannover Re | Hannover Re |
10:00-10:05 | Welcome | Helen Crowley | Secretary General | GEM |
10:05-10:15 | International Day for DRR and GEM's global hazard and risk maps | John Schneider | Senior Advisor | GEM |
10:15-10:25 | Overview of GEM's 2023 product release | Helen Crowley | Secretary General | GEM |
10:25-10:45 | GEM's global seismic hazard mosaic and future developments | Marco Pagani | Head of Seismic Hazards | GEM |
10:45-11:05 | GEM's global seismic risk mosaic and future developments | Vitor Silva | Head of Risk Engineering | GEM |
11:05-11:20 | Walkthrough of access to GEM's 2023 products | Andres Abarca | Product Manager | GEM |
11:20-11:55 | Q&A and Discussion | John Schneider | Senior Advisor | GEM |
11:55-12:00 | Closing Remarks | Helen Crowley | Secretary General | GEM |
REGISTRATION
We invite you to join us for an opportunity to explore the latest seismic hazard and risk modeling advancements and their application to informing #riskreduction measures in the field of #buildingsafety and land use, enhancing #earthquakepreparedness, and incentivising #risktransfer mechanisms.
📅 Date: October 13th 🕙 Time: 10 am - 12 pm CEST
🎥 Livestream Link: GEM's YouTube Channel
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