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GEM Models and OpenQuake Engine Training

May 5-16, 2025

EUCENTRE, Pavia, Italy

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

Azdine Kay Ysulan*

Marzia Santini

David Wald

Helen Crowley

Kishor Jaiswal

Finn Løvholt

More invited speakers coming soon!

AGENDA

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Auditorium

Time
Title
Speaker
Organisation
16:25-16:40
Using GEM products to support rapid loss assessment
Alberto Michelini
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) ARISTOTLE
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
16:10-16:25
Systemic or cascading infrastructure risk
Astha Poudel
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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
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
Session 3: Where are we going? (June 14th, afternoon)
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)
15:10-15:40
Coffee break - Posters and demonstrations
14:05-14:20
Triggered or secondary effects: Tsunami
Stefano Lorito
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
13:00-13:10
Introductory remarks
John Schneider
GEM
17:25-17:30
Final Wrap/Closing
Jorg Steffensen
Hannover Re
11:25-11:40
Site-specific seismic hazard assessment for nuclear and hydropower facilities in France
Paola Traversa
Electricit� de France (EdF)
postersdemos

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



POSTERS & DEMOS

Showcasing GEM Integration, Innovative Tools, and Advanced Data for Enhanced Hazard and Risk Assessment

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