Description
GEM's Global Flatfile is a fully homogenised collection of publicly available ground-motion flatfiles and datasets. This dataset has been created with the purpose of facilitating ground-motion modelling/characterization activities. It contains metadata (but not waveforms) for over 750,000 unique recordings of over 40,000 unique events which have been tectonically classified by GEM, and it is supplemented with additional information from GEM's Global Homogenised Earthquake Catalogue where appropriate. The flatfile is formatted to work readily with the residual analysis capabilities of the Strong-Motion Tools (SMT) module of the OpenQuake Model Builder's Toolkit.
How to cite this work
Brooks, C., Pagani, M., & Villani, M. (2026). GEM Global Flatfile (Version v2026) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20732303
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The latest version (v2026) will soon be available on Zenodo for direct download under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Users interested in this version can click the "Open Version Download" button in the right panel to access the information. If your use case does not comply with the license terms, a license can be requested by clicking on the "License Request", where a specific agreement will be provided, depending on the use case.
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