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GEM Models and OpenQuake Engine Training

May 5-16, 2025

EUCENTRE, Pavia, Italy

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OVERVIEW

This course, part of the Doctoral Programme in Earthquake Engineering at IUSS Pavia, is organised by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, and aims to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art methods and models for seismic hazard, exposure, vulnerability and risk assessment, and their implementation within the OpenQuake Engine under a number of different use cases. The course will include both theoretical lectures and training sessions on how to use the OpenQuake Engine, from basic scenario analysis to advanced modelling of probabilistic seismic hazard and risk.

Speakers & Panelists

Session Title

Carmine Galasso

Professor, Catastrophe Risk Engineering, UCL

Christopher Brooks

Seismic Hazard Modeller

Martina Caruso

Seismic Risk Modeller

Catalina Yepes Estrada

Exposure Development Lead

Vitor Silva

Head of Risk Engineering, GEM

Al Mouayed Bellah Nafeh

Physical Vulnerability Lead

Anirudh Rao

Seismic Risk Modelling Lead

Kirsty Bayliss

Seismic Hazard Modeller

Marco Pagani

Head of Seismic Hazards, GEM

Manuela Villani

Senior Seismic Hazard Modeller

Marco Baiguera

Exposure Analyst

Helen Crowley

Secretary General, GEM

Alejandro Calderón

Exposure Research Lead

Marco Pagani

Head of Seismic Hazards

More invited speakers coming soon!

AGENDA

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Topic
Speaker
Organisation
Carmine Galasso
UCL
Vitor Silva
GEM
Marco Pagani
GEM
Helen Crowley
GEM

Agenda

Seismic Hazard Component - 15 hours (Week 1)

  • Module 1: Components of a hazard input model: description and examples 

    • Earthquake sources

    • Ground-motion models

    • Logic trees

  • Module 2: Seismic Hazard Assessment 

    • Classical PSHA

    • Event-based PSHA

    • Scenario-based Hazard Analysis

    • Seismic Hazard Analysis with the OpenQuake Engine 

  • Module 3: Advanced Seismic Hazard Analysis 

    • Disaggregation

    • Conditional spectra

    • Vector-valued PSHA

    • Cross-correlated ground-motion fields and conditioning using seismic stations

    • Advanced Seismic Hazard Analysis with the OpenQuake Engine 



Seismic Risk Component - 15 hours (Week 2)

  • Module 4: Exposure Modelling

    • Exposure modelling at urban, regional and national scale

    • GEM Building Taxonomy

    • GEM Global Exposure Model

    • Exposure model inputs for the OpenQuake Engine

  • Module 5: Vulnerability Modelling

    • Concepts of fragility and vulnerability modelling

    • GEM Vulnerability modelling framework

    • GEM Global Vulnerability database

    • Vulnerability model inputs for the OpenQuake Engine

  • Module 6: Scenario Risk Modelling

    • Concepts of earthquake scenario modelling

    • Accounting for soil conditions

    • OpenQuake Engine scenario calculators

    • Exercises with scenario modelling

  • Module 7: Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment

    • Concepts of Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment (PSRA)

    • GEM’s Global Seismic Risk Model

    • OpenQuake Engine risk calculators

    • Exercises on event-based seismic risk modelling

    • Advanced analysis with the OpenQuake Engine



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