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News Seismic Moment: From Rupture to Recovery By: ​ ​ Sep 15, 2022 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ Close to 200 online and in-person participants from 70+ countries joined the International Symposium on Hazard, Risk and Recovery Modelling: Seismic Moment – From Rupture to Recovery. The event, held at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal on July 14th discussed cutting-edge science and ground-breaking technology in earthquake engineering. Vitor Silva - GEM Seismic Risk Coordinator and Xavier Romao - FEUP/CONSTRUCT moderated the discussions on new advancements in seismic hazard modelling in Europe, latest developments in vulnerability and risk assessment and factors influencing long-term impact and recovery after an earthquake. Vice Rector of the University of Aveiro Artur Silva, and Director of RISCO Romeu Vicente opened the symposium. It was followed by presentations on the new European seismic hazard model (Laurentiu Danciu, ETHZ); and the new European seismic risk model (Helen Crowley, EUCENTRE). The second part of the morning session focused on earthquake early warning in Europe (Carmine Galasso and Gemma Cremen, UCL); and the NASA Insight Mission - Seismicity of Mars ( John Clinton, ETHZ). The afternoon sessions explored more on the experiences of the presenters in vulnerability and risk assessments such as addressing the issues and challenges in clustered seismicity risk assessment (Paolo Bazzurro, IUSS Pavia); the impact of and recovery from the Croatian Earthquakes of 2020 (Mario Uros, University of Zagreb); and research and implementation of seismic risk mitigation in schools through low-cost sliding foundations (Anastasios Sextos, University of Bristol). Speakers shared more on the ground experiences in post-earthquake community recovery processes and modelling (Laurie Johnson, Laurie Johnson Consulting USA); and changes in the upcoming update of the Eurocode 8 (Antonio Correia, National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, Portugal). The event was capped with a discussion on what’s missing in earthquake risk assessment, which featured a presentation on future directions in earthquake risk assessment: high-fidelity optimization, a numerical modelling approach for predicting the seismic wave of complex earthquake scenarios from the fault to the epicentre site. The topic was presented by a surprise speaker - Professor Jack Baker of Stanford University. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News A promising start for the USAID-GEM TREQ Project: Public, private, academia and industry professionals joined the launch in Quito, Ecuador By: ​ ​ Mar 17, 2020 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ More than 100 individuals and a dozen local and international institutions participated in the TREQ project launch held at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Quito, Antiguo Hospital Militar, Ecuador from March 5 to 6. The Municipality of Quito hosted the event in collaboration with the GEM Foundation and USAID-OFDA, the project’s main funding partner. The objective of the event was to officially launch the project, and to provide a space for discussion about the strengths, challenges and goals of each city in terms of understanding seismic risk and its contribution to informing disaster risk reduction policies, projects and activities, including for improved disaster response and recovery. Representatives from the following municipalities presented and actively participated in the event: From Quito, Ecuador: the Office of the Mayor, Quito; Metropolitan Directorate of Risk Management (DGR) ; Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN); Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE); Central University of Ecuador (UCE); The Polytechnic School of the Army (ESPE), University of the Americas (UDLA), the University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ); Metropolitan Public Company of Potable Water and Sanitation (EPMAPS); Pichincha Association of Civil Engineers (CICP); Pichincha Association of Architects (CAE); the Center of Research for Housing (CIV); and the Red Cross. From Cali, Colombia: The Office of the Mayor, Cali; Servicio Geológico Colombiano; Administrative Department of Municipal Planning (DAPM); and Risk Management Secretariat (SGR). GEM’s Catalina Yepes and Alejandro Calderon facilitated the 2-day event. The first day focused on the presentations of collaborators from Ecuador and Colombia on risk management, municipal planning and current activities and projects related to TREQ. On the second day, activities focused on workplan development through parallel sessions grouped into 1) Geophysical Institutes and Geological Services 2) Municipal Offices of Planning and Risk Management and 3) Academy and industry professionals. To learn more about the results of the workshops, an event summary is available for download . More activities are planned in the coming weeks. For more information on TREQ, please contact us at treq@globalquakemodel.org or visit our project website at https://www.globalquakemodel.org/project/treq. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News UK Space Agency project METEOR quarterly meeting in Kathmandu By: ​ ​ Dec 18, 2019 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn METEOR meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal Anirudh Rao and Nicole Paul participated in the quarterly UK Space Agency #METEOR Project meeting and workshops in Kathmandu, Nepal. The weeklong event was hosted by the National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET) from 11-14 November. The event was attended by representatives from the British Geological Survey (BGS), ImageCat, National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET)- Nepal, and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). From November 11th-12th, project collaborators presented updates on their respective work packages, and reviewed project progress. Anirudh presented GEM updates on the compilation of a library of vulnerability functions for multiple perils for use in the project, and on the identification and propagation of uncertainties in risk assessment. The host organization, NSET provided an International Partner presentation, discussing the details of building code compliance programs in Nepal. On November 13th, METEOR stakeholders from the policy-making level, the acting UK Ambassador to Nepal, NSET personnel and various university professors met to discuss policies and gaps in risk information. The following day was devoted to technical discussions on exposure, landslide, seismic hazard and flood, which was well attended by various technical and scientific staff from government ministries, bureaus and academic institutions. The next METEOR project stakeholders meeting is scheduled in 2020. For more information on the METEOR project, please visit . No images found. GALLERY 1/12 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Insurance for Natural Perils – A Solution for Nepal? By: ​ ​ Jul 12, 2018 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ The government of Nepal recently conducted its annual RISK2RESILIENCE conference with the theme: International Conference on Experience of Earthquake Risk Management, Preparedness and Reconstruction in Nepal. The event, held from 18-20 June in Kathmandu, was jointly organized by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA), National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET). The conference gathered some 240 people comprised of 40 international professionals from 13 different countries and about 200 individuals composed of government officials, DRR experts, practitioners and academia who participated and shared their ideas and views as speakers, presenters and panelists. The event aimed to critically look back at what has been collectively done on Earthquake Risk Reduction and Preparedness in Nepal in the past decades in light of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake; to critically examine the experience as well as the progress of Earthquake Reconstruction to date; and to help set the Way Forward in the Long Journey of Disaster Risk Management in Nepal. Anselm Smolka, GEM Special Advisor and former Secretary General, participated in the event presenting his insights on how insurance can help Nepal cope with natural perils in the future under the ‘Setting the Future’ keynote session. He also emphasized GEM’s work in promoting earthquake resilience worldwide through high quality open tools and open data. Anselm believes that given the large insurance gap demonstrated by the Gorkha earthquake and Terai Floods, Nepal presents a typical case for non-traditional insurance products. He recommended several options such as microinsurance for rural areas and insurance pool for urban regions. Microinsurance would cover poor or moderately poor people, while insurance pool would cover those residing in the cities and urbanized areas. Anselm added that the end goal of these non-traditional insurance products is disaster relief and recovery. On the last day, Mr. Prem Kumar Rai, Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs remarked that, "This 3-day International Conference has come up with important conclusions and way forward for the country to lessen the adverse impacts of disasters in Nepal based on lessons from the past. I assure you all that the Nepal Government highly acknowledges all these recommendations." (source: NSET) The Risk2Resilience Conference culminated with the approval of the Conference Resolution recommendations endorsed by the participants on how to move forward with Earthquake Risk Management, Preparedness and Reconstruction in Nepal. The resolution can be downloaded here. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News News Briefs: Meetings, Workshops and Conferences July-Sept 2019 By: ​ ​ Oct 9, 2019 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ GEM, HannoverRe and SwissRe workshop on GEM risk model development A 2-day workshop on the GEM model development was held from September 12-13 at the GEM office in Pavia, Italy. GEM partners, Hannover Re and Swiss Re participated in the workshop to discuss how OpenQuake earthquake models could be converted into the OASIS Loss Modeling Framework model, comparing the technical requirements and differences in approach between OpenQuake and OASIS. The discussions also touched on the aspects of product completeness, marketing, pricing, licensing, customer support and documentation for commercializing a model. The group also identified the next steps to address technical and licensing issues later this year. COMET-GEM workshop in Leeds Geoscientists from the Centre for Observation and Modeling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET), a consortium of earth science researchers from top UK universities, held a workshop with GEM staff at the University of Leeds, UK. The workshop participants presented recent geoscience, hazard and risk research from around the globe, and then focused on defining a path forward involving COMET-GEM collaborative research and modeling projects for the next few years. USAID and GEM to work on Training and Communication for Earthquake Risk Assessment (TREQ) Project USAID and GEM will work together soon to develop capacity for urban earthquake risk assessment in Latin America, to enhance the understanding of earthquake risk, and to bridge the gap between risk assessment and disaster risk reduction. TREQ is a 2-year project supported by the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance - USAID. The project is set to kick-off in October. Other notable participation of GEM in yearly meetings, workshops and conferences held from June-July on earthquake hazard, engineering, information technology and risk insurance are listed below: Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics-SECED (London, UK) - attended by Vitor Silva, Risk Team Coordinator, is the main forum in the UK for students, academics and practitioners with an interest in earthquakes, blast and other types of dynamic effects. Vitor co-chaired the session on fragility, vulnerability and infrastructure resilience. RedHat OpenShift Commons Gathering (Milan, Italy) - attended by Daniele Vigano, GEM IT Manager and Systems Engineer, brings together experts from all over the world to discuss container technologies, best practices for cloud native application developers and the open source software projects that underpin the OpenShift/Kuberenetes ecosystem. Swiss Impact Investment Association (SIIA) 4th Annual Impact Summit (Zug, Switzerland) - attended by John Schneider, GEM Secretary General, is a forum for brainstorming with impact investment community, entrepreneurs and technical experts/innovators regarding ways to encourage investment in businesses that are aimed at providing solutions to climate change and other global issues. GEM participated in this event to explore strategic partnerships and to better understand investment attitudes in order to position GEM at the forefront of 21st century paradigm shift: from ‘risk and return’ to ‘risk, return and impact’. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News What role will GEM play as the risk landscape and associated demand evolve between now and 2030? By: ​ ​ Dec 13, 2021 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ A world that is resilient to earthquakes and other natural hazards will continue to be GEM’s vision over the next decade. The mission to 2030 also calls for GEM to become a global leader in the integrated, multi-hazard risk assessment and resilience planning domain. GEM’s strategy and roadmap to 2030 is underpinned by the global drivers for disaster risk reduction and sustainability - namely the Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals – and by its four core values: openness, collaboration, public good and credibility. GEM’s approach is further placed in the context of the evolution of the science and technology of risk modelling and user needs to address systemic and cascading risks for multi-hazards. GEM plans to maintain its global leadership in earthquake hazard and risk assessment, while at the same time leveraging its broader capabilities, such as in exposure modelling, into partnerships addressing the effects of climate change. GEM will also leverage its public-private partnership approach and collaboration network to support the development of risk solutions and improve resilience including through insurance/risk financing, as well as risk mitigation and reduction through urban planning and building regulation. Watch this space for more updates in early 2022. No images found. GALLERY 1/2 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News The 2019 Japan-New Zealand-Taiwan Seismic Hazard Workshop By: ​ ​ Dec 18, 2019 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn PSHA workshop participants, Toyako, Japan 2019 The 2019 Japan-New Zealand-Taiwan Seismic Hazard Workshop was held from November 4th - 6th in Toyako, Japan. The workshop was hosted by GEM public sponsor, NIED. GEM has been actively participating in this event since 2012. This year, Marco Pagani, GEM Hazard Team Coordinator presented a summary of the characteristics of the global hazard maps and the mosaic and illustrated the various comparisons between the hazard models included in the mosaic to more than 80 scientists from Taiwan, Japan, Greece, USA, Singapore, Korea and New Zealand. Marco also chaired a session on Earthquake Ground Motion. He also discussed the GEM hazard team’s work on developing a suite of tools to appraise the main characteristics of the Seismic Source and Ground-Motion characterizations (SSC and GMC, respectively). The tools, once completed, may be used to appraise the earthquake occurrence characteristics of different earthquake source typologies used in an SSC or compare the ground motion produced by alternative ground motion models in the SSC for well-specified conditions. Group discussions focused on five topics: PSHA and model validation (Chung-Han Chan and Matt Gerstenberger; Ground motion prediction and site amplification (Hongjun Si and Nobuyuki Morikawa); Scenarios and subduction zone modeling (Bill Fry and Yin-Tung Yen); Hazard and risk products (Toshihiro Yamada and Elizabeth Abbott); and Fault structure and deformation model (Takashi Azuma and Andy Nicol). A summary of the meeting is available here . About the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment workshop The PSHA workshop is an annual event organized for the purpose of sharing research results, data, knowledge and information to mitigate risk in the Asia-Pacific region. The first workshop was held in 2012 organized by NIED Japan, and TEM Taiwan. This year the workshop is supported by GNS Science New Zealand, NIED Japan, University of Otago and University of Canterbury. No images found. GALLERY 1/6 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Project Name Products Pacific Islands Hazard OpenQuake engine input model to perform hazard calculations for the Pacific Islands Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Description The Southern Pacific Islands model covers islands in the area of ~30°-0°S and 150°-200°E, including the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa/American Samoa, and Tonga. How to cite this work Johnson, K. L., M. Pagani, and R. H. Styron. "PSHA of the southern Pacific Islands." Geophysical Journal International 224.3 (2021): 2149-2172. Available Versions The latest version (v2018.3.0) created by GEM can be requested by clicking on the "License Request", where a specific license will be provided, depending on the use case. Other versions can be consulted in the model documentation. License information Currently, the model is only available under a restricted license that has to be tailored for each specific use case. Share License Custom license Available resources Documentation 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 The Global Earthquake Model 2018: A step toward earthquake resilience By: ​ ​ Mar 6, 2019 ​ Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn ​ Since 2009, GEM has been developing collaborations around the world to assess earthquake hazard and risk. In 2015, GEM released the OpenQuake-Engine, a software program that is rapidly becoming the standard worldwide for calculating earthquake hazard and risk. Later that year, GEM committed to completing the Global Earthquake Model, leveraging its global collaborations of hundreds of experts and several regional programs using a common methodology and open analysis tools to coordinate the completion of a global mosaic of hazard and risk models. Combined, this represents the culmination of a 10-year effort to bring a comprehensive and globally complete set of information about earthquake hazard and risk together into a suite of products for use by the entire community of risk modellers, risk management professionals, and the public. On December 5th in Pavia, Italy, the GEM Event will feature: release of the global earthquake hazard and risk maps, presentations on new directions from public, private and academic perspectives panel discussions to explore development, uses, drivers and future of maps and models posters and demonstrations showing the development and application of GEM tools and models You will get an insider’s look on how the GEM2018 map was made and its applications in risk management, on interactive tools specially developed for the map, and on the strategic drivers, demands, and future directions for research and applications. You will find out what has changed in our global understanding of earthquake hazard since the release of GSHAP in 1999; you will learn how we have assembled information on the exposure and vulnerability of population and the built environment to assess the risks of economic loss and human mortality at national level globally. Further, you will see how these risks are distributed around the world and gain insights for a wide range of risk management applications and resilience planning. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS