News GEM 13th anniversary: launch of Atlas 1.0 - a new and easier way of accessing seismic hazard and risk information By: ​ ​ Mar 16, 2022 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ GEM is proud to commemorate its 13th year anniversary with the launch of Atlas 1.0 - a subscription-based dynamic web portal that allows subscribers to view information in a GIS style map viewer featuring instant display and download of hazard curves, high resolution exposure data and vulnerability curves for any selected point on the map. GEM’s Global Seismic Hazard Map (GSHM) version 2019.1 with associated hazard curves, will be the first dataset that will be made available through this platform. This service gives clients a pay-as-you-go alternative to licensing the GSHM data layers directly. About GSHM 2019.1 In 2018, GEM released its first version of the GSHM. The GEM GSHM was the first of its kind since the GSHAP was presented in 1999. The GEM GSHM was created by collating maps computed using national and regional probabilistic seismic hazard models developed by various institutions and projects, and by GEM Foundation scientists. The OpenQuake Engine, an open-source seismic hazard and risk calculation software developed principally by the GEM Foundation, was used to calculate the hazard values. A smoothing methodology was applied to homogenize hazard values along the model borders. Meeting the existing and future needs of the DRR community As part of GEM’s products and services strategy, GEM is offering value-added products for a fee such as the Atlas 1.0. These value-added products will also be available for free for public-good, non-commercial applications. In turn, the revenue generated from product or services fees will be reinvested to maintain GEM’s core capabilities, with an emphasis on providing support to developing countries. Visit the Atlas product page to subscribe or request a demo. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Presentation of the Dominican Republic seismic hazard model By: ​ ​ Sep 15, 2022 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ More than 100 people participated in the webinar presentation of the national probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) model for the Dominican Republic held on June 14th. Servicio Geológico Nacional Dominicano (SGN) hosted the event in cooperation with GEM, Oficina Nacional de Evaluación Sísmica y Vulnerabilidad de Infraestructura, and USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. The national seismic hazard model was developed in collaboration with SGN and with local scientists under the TREQ project. Due to the ongoing covid pandemic, the strong partnership was made possible through multiple online sessions with local executives and risk professionals. This approach demonstrated the importance of incorporating detailed information and local knowledge in the assessment of earthquake hazard and risk at the city or local level through participation and collaboration. GEM’s Kendra Johnson who led the development of the seismic hazard model for the Dominican Republic in the context of the TREQ project said, “This was really a collective effort with other scientists at the GEM Foundation and in the Dominican Republic. Completing this seismic hazard model is one of the important results of the TREQ project, and one that we hope will become more useful going forward, especially in its application in the seismic building code.” The report on the national PSHA model for the Dominican Republic developed by the project describes the PSHA input model and presents: i) the primary data sources and their preparation; ii) the methodology used to develop the seismic source characterization and to select ground motion models; iii) the hazard results computed; and iv) how the results compare to former models used to compute seismic hazard for the country. GEM worked closely with SGN whose staff had been very involved from the start, in particular Yesica Perez, Vladimir Guzman, Maria Betania Roque Quezada and Santiago Muñoz during the technical stages, and with Edwin Garcia, Freddy Duran, and the IT support at the later stages. Additionally, both the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and SGN contributed data that was especially useful in developing the hazard model. To download the model and documentation, please visit the model page at: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/product/dominican-republic-hazard-model . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM in 2015 By: ​ ​ Jul 2, 2018 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ GEM looks back to an eventful year 2015, starting with the successful launch of the OpenQuake platform in January. The tools, data and products on the platform have found rapidly increasing acceptance in earthquake risk assessment and its application for disaster risk reduction worldwide. Further highlights were our active participation in the 3rd UN WCDRR in Sendai in March, the finalization of the first GEM managed regional project SARA for South America, and the start of a similar project in Sub-Saharan Africa. Soon after the Sendai Conference a terrible earthquake struck Nepal in April. In the spirit of GEM’s core value of “working together” GEM provides assistance to its local partner NSET, the Nepal Society for Earthquake Technology, to contribute to the creation of a disaster resilient Nepal. The program of this long-term collaboration has been presented to the Government of Nepal by NSET and GEM in early December. We want to express our sincere thanks to the GEM staff, to our sponsors and collaboration partners, and to the whole GEM family for their continued support which has made all these achievements possible and lays the basis for fulfilling GEM’s vision - a world where disaster resilience is common practice.With best wishes for a successful and prosperous year 2016 to all of you, Mauro Dolce Anselm SmolkaChairman, Governing Board Secretary General No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Project Name Products South Asia Exposure Repository with the inventory of residential, commercial and industrial buildings in South Asia Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Description The Global Exposure Model is a mosaic of local and regional models with information regarding the residential, commercial, and industrial building stock at the smallest available administrative division of each country and includes details about the number of buildings, number of occupants, vulnerability characteristics, average built-up area, and average replacement cost. The dataset is developed and maintained by the GEM Foundation, using a bottom-up approach at the global scale, using national statistics, socio-economic data, and local datasets. This model allows the identification of the most common types of construction worldwide, regions with large fractions of informal construction, and areas prone to natural disasters with a high concentration of population and building stock. The South Asia region of the model includes information pertaining to the following countries/territories: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. How to cite this work Yepes-Estrada, C., Calderon, A., Costa, C., Crowley, H., Dabbeek, J., Hoyos, M., Martins, L., Paul, N., Rao, A., Silva, V. (2023). Global Building Exposure Model for Earthquake Risk Assessment. Earthquake Spectra. doi:10.1177/87552930231194048 Available Versions An open version (v2023.1) of the model, aggregated at Administrative Level 1, is available for direct download under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Users interested in this version can click the "Open Repository" button in the right panel to access the information. The full version for any country/territory, at the highest resolution available, can be requested by clicking on the "License Request", where a specific license will be provided, depending on the use case. License information The open version is available under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, which requires: *Attribution (you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made) *Non-commercial (you may not use the material for commercial purposes) *ShareAlike (derivatives created must be made available under the same license as the original) Any deviation from these terms incur in license infringement. For commercial use of the model, a specific license agreement must be made tailored to your use case, in such instance please click on "License Request". Share License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Available resources Open Repository License Request Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn text Map View Search Popup title Close Country/Region Available Resources Country/Region Available Resources Country/Region Resource Url Search Found Country/Region Resource Url Preview Preview is not available. Search Found Country/Region Resource Url Preview Preview is not available. Search Found Country/Region Resource Url Preview Preview is not available. Related products Global Exposure Model Global Vulnerability Model Global Seismic Risk Map Country-Territory Seismic Risk Profiles Global Seismic Hazard Map Related publications For downloading or accessing detailed product information like PNG/PDF maps, datasets, license request, shapefiles and more, please switch to a desktop or laptop computer. Thank you for your understanding.

News World-leading reinsurance broker, Guy Carpenter collaborates with GEM on earthquake risk modelling By: ​ ​ Oct 7, 2019 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ World-leading reinsurance broker, Guy Carpenter is working together with GEM as Advisor Sponsor. The collaboration is expected to facilitate the update of Guy Carpenter’s seismic hazard and risk models using GEM’s OpenQuake engine with its built-in toolkits, earthquake catalogues, and ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) as well as global databases for active faults, exposure and vulnerability. “GEM is happy to support Guy Carpenter by sharing our latest seismic data, models and tools for better understanding of earthquake risk by insurance companies. Risk-informed decisions will ultimately benefit the policy holders, and the public at large,” John Schneider, Secretary General underscoring the importance of GEM’s products for insurance purposes. The collaboration will be headed by Guy Carpenter’s GC Analytics Business Unit, which is responsible for supporting risk underwriting, reinsurance purchasing, catastrophe modelling and benchmarking among others. “GC Analytics provides its clients with competitive advantage through quantitative skills and sophisticated modelling insights,” explains Matthew Eagle, Head of Global Model Solutions and Advisory within GC Analytics at Guy Carpenter. “The collaboration with GEM will not only enable the enhancement of our earthquake risk analysis by having access to specific technical and scientific expertise, but will also contribute to a better understanding of earthquake risk for the benefit of society at large.” A working group has already been established to coordinate communication and technical support between GEM’s scientific/technical units and the GC Analytics modelling team. About Guy Carpenter Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC is a leading global risk and reinsurance specialist with more than 3,100 professionals in over 60 offices around the world. Guy Carpenter delivers a powerful combination of broking expertise, trusted strategic advisory services and industry-leading analytics to help clients adapt to emerging opportunities and achieve profitable growth. Guy Carpenter is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The company’s 76,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annualized revenue approaching $17 billion, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading companies including Marsh, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. For more information, visit www.guycarp.com and follow Guy Carpenter on LinkedIn and Twitter @GuyCarpenter. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM’s Contribution: Insights into Morocco's 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake By: ​ ​ Sep 29, 2023 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ Following the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that heavily affected Morocco on September 8, 2023, the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) was able to use models from its global inventory, together with shaking data from the USGS’s ShakeMap repository , to estimate the impacts in the immediate aftermath. Using GEM's Moroccan Earthquake Risk Model, in the day after the event, GEM provided a glimpse of the disaster's toll, with an initial assessment of approximately 2,300 lives lost, 20,000 completely damaged buildings and a staggering 270,000 people left homeless in its wake. In the following days, with the support from the USGS, GEM incorporated ShakeMap data in the loss assessment, which led to increased estimates with at least 4000 lives lost. The information furnished by GEM proved invaluable in gauging the spatial extent of the catastrophe's impact. As part of GEM’s role in the ARISTOTLE partnership , this data found immediate value in the efforts of the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) of the European Commission and the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, facilitating informed decision-making for humanitarian aid initiatives. The inclusion of comprehensive, real-time insights, such as those provided by USGS’s PAGER system, by satellite-based damage assessments or by the analysis performed with GEM's global models is of critical importance to guide effective disaster response and recovery actions. For those interested in exploring the maps generated by ERCC to visualize the earthquake's impact, they are accessible via the following links: https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ECHO-Products/Maps#/maps/4639 https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ECHO-Products/Maps#/maps/4633 No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News METEOR project updates By: ​ ​ Mar 20, 2019 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ About 20 project participants from GEM, Tanzania Prime Minister’s Office-Disaster Management Department (DMD), Nepal’s National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET), British Geological Survey (BGS), Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), ImageCat and the UK’s Office of Policy Management (OPM) participated in the 4th METEOR Project Quarterly Meeting held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 11-15 March. The group discussed the progress of its key objectives covering the delivery and use of open-source national scale datasets for multihazard analysis; uptake of protocols to develop critical exposure information from EO data, and training of end users to utilize and understand hazard and exposure data. GEM, represented by Paul Henshaw, Director of Technology and Development, presented two components: the modelling component to investigate how vulnerability and uncertainty of utilising and integrating data from various sources affect hazard and risk modelling; and the knowledge-sharing component to disseminate to the wider space and the development sectors to ensure that project outcomes will be available to the DRM community in the long term. The meeting was highlighted by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s (HOT) presentation on data collection tools and approach; and the demonstration of data collection by Ramani Huria - a community-based mapping project that began in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, training university students and local community members to create highly accurate maps of the most flood-prone areas of the city. About METEOR METEOR is a 3-year project funded by the UK Space Agency to develop innovative application of Earth Observation (EO) technologies to improve understanding of exposure with a specific focus on the countries of Nepal and Tanzania. For more information, visit the project website at https://www.meteor-project.org/ . No images found. GALLERY 1/8 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Integrated Risk Modelling Toolkit By: ​ ​ Jul 2, 2018 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ “Not only is it vital to evaluate and benchmark the conditions that lead to adverse earthquake impacts and loss – says GEM Social Vulnerability and Integrated Risk Coordinator Christopher G. Burton- it is equally important to measure the capacity of populations to respond to damaging events and to provide a set of metrics for priority setting and decision-making”. To allow for a holistic approach to seismic risk assessment and to integrate societal factors with risk estimation, GEM released the Integrated Risk Modelling Toolkit, a QGIS plugin compatible with the OpenQuake platform that is now accessible from here and from within the QGIS software itself. By leveraging user-supplied data or the GEM-CEDIM Socio-Economic Databases, the tool facilitates the integration of composite indicators of socio-economic characteristics with measures of physical risk (i.e. estimations of human or economic loss) to form what is called an integrated risk assessment. Learn more from here. A user manual can be accessed directly from within the tool. For web-based mapping and data exploration of completed and shared integrated risk assessments, GEM has also recently developed the Integrated Risk Viewer, a tool now directly accessible from the OpenQuake Platform where users can explore and interact with the models over the web without having to install or operate the QGIS plugin. Find it at: https://platform.openquake.org/irv/ . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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