News Aon Impact Forecasting Revealed 2023 Roadshow Unveils New Canada Earthquake Model By: Jun 28, 2023 Share Facebook LinkedIn Represented by John Schneider and Andres Abarca, GEM participated in the Aon Impact Forecasting Revealed 2023 Roadshow that took place in April and May. This event focused on the latest advancements in earthquake hazard and risk modeling and included a specific emphasis on the GEM-Aon collaboration on Impact Forecasting’s new Canada earthquake model. John (R) and Goran Trendafiloski of Aon Impact Forecasting at Aon's New York office. The Roadshow highlighted the alarming fact that cumulative earthquake damage since 2000 exceeded $1 trillion last year, underscoring the pressing need to address this global issue. Although Canada's contribution to this damage has been relatively low, earthquake perils remain a significant concern for the country. Through collaboration with GEM, Impact Forecasting has enhanced its suite of models for earthquake hazards and risks, incorporating the most up-to-date scientific knowledge, including Canada’s newly released 6th generation Seismic Hazard Model by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). GEM played an important role in assisting NRCan with the development of hazard and risk models using OpenQuake. Impact Forecasting further developed the model for financial loss/insurance applications, including the addition of secondary effects of fire-following earthquakes, liquefaction, and landslides. In addition to the Canada model, attendees were informed of upcoming earthquake models for Italy, Switzerland, Singapore, and South Korea, also developed in collaboration with GEM. The Aon Impact Forecasting Revealed 2023 Roadshow was a very useful platform for networking and knowledge exchange with industry leaders. John and Andres participated in events held in New York, Bermuda, and Zurich on April 25th, April 28th, and May 23rd respectively. These events also provided an important forum for networking with current and prospective GEM sponsors and collaborators, with significant interest identified for other GEM hazard and risk model products. We extend our gratitude to all the participants who made this Roadshow a memorable and impactful event. No images found. GALLERY NYC-1.jpg NYC-3.jpg aon zurich AnA JS Peter.png NYC-1.jpg 1/5 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News Understanding Risk BC online event series 2020 By: Nov 5, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn Join NRCan and an exceptional community of policy-makers, researchers, planners and engineers at the Understanding Risk BC online event series. Register for one fee to access 18 online events that will connect you to the region’s most cutting edge conversations about disaster risk reduction and resilience. This fall, URBC is offering over 18 interactive online workshops and insightful webinars, including: · Recent advancements in hazard and risk assessments for our region · Grounding our resilience through Indigenous approaches to wellness · Strategies to reduce Fraser River and coastal flood risk in the Lower Mainland · Financial incentives for investing in risk reduction and adaptation · Risk-based land development decisions in the face of changing hazards and risks · and more... Read the detailed program here Check out our event video at: Hope to see you at these great online sessions. No images found. GALLERY 1/2 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News SERA Project workshop By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn On September 18th and 19th, the EUCENTRE, a GEM sponsor and host institution to the GEM Foundation, hosted a meeting focused on the SERA Project, acronym for ‘Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe’. The EUCENTRE is leading a work package within SERA on the development of a risk framework for Europe, and is collaborating with GEM to develop exposure and vulnerability models, and to run risk calculations at a European scale using the OpenQuake-engine. The overall objective of SERA is to improve access to data, services and research infrastructures, and deliver solutions based on innovative R&D (research and development) in seismology and earthquake engineering with the end goal of reducing the exposure of our society to the risk posed by natural and anthropogenic [j2] earthquakes. For more details, visit SERA's website at www.sera-eu.org. Vitor Silva and Venetia Despotaki, Risk Coordinator and Physical Risk Engineer respectively, attended the meeting on behalf of the GEM Foundation. GEM is working with the other partners in the project, which includes universities and research institutions from Italy, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, France and Turkey, in the development of exposure and vulnerability models which will generate a number of risk metrics across Europe (average annualized losses, probable maximum losses, risk maps), critical for the development of seismic risk reduction strategies. To this aim, the collaboration between SERA and GEM has already led to the development of an exposure model for 12 countries in the Balkan region for the residential building stock (at the municipality level), i.e.: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. The datasets used are based on the latest national housing census of each country and will be constantly improved. Similarly, the work will be extended to the rest of the European countries. In addition to the residential building stock, databases regarding the industry for each country, and socio-economic indicators (e.g., labour force, population per economic sector) will be further utilized to facilitate the development of exposure models for industrial and commercial buildings. Vitor and Venetia also presented a building taxonomy based on an international standard (the GEM Building Taxonomy https://www.globalquakemodel.org/single-post/2017/05/17/GEM-Building-Taxonomy-Version-20) that will be used in both the development of building exposure models and the fragility and vulnerability models. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Collaboration and openness – keys to success of the global earthquake model EVENT SUMMARY GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE MODEL 2018 A Step Toward Earthquake Resilience 5th of December 2018 | 0900h - 1800h CAR College, Pavia, Italy Collaboration and openness – keys to success of the global earthquake model GEM scientists presented the global earthquake hazard and risk maps in Pavia, Italy to more than 130 delegates around the world from public, private and academic organizations that participated in the GEM2018 launch on December 5th. The maps and the underlying data behind them will enhance global disaster risk reduction strategies according to representatives of UNISDR and World Bank/GFDRR. “This is a great contribution towards putting to the public an open data, collaborative effort with many partners on the best available data on earthquake risk around the world,” said Ricardo Mena UNISDR Chief of Support and Monitoring of Sendai Framework Implementation. Emma Phillips, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist from GFDRR’s Innovation Lab added, “These products and tools that are coming out of GEM can really help in the process of making informed decisions. The way we think about risk in an open data aspect is very useful when we engage with our clients because we are able to rely on this open information that GEM provides.” GEM, a non-profit organization that started as a pilot project in 2009, has collaborated with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver the global maps, data and analysis tools – bannered by the OpenQuake engine, the software used to run calculations and build the global mosaic of models. Marco Pagani, GEM Hazard Team Leader, presented the global earthquake hazard map , the first of its kind since GSHAP was presented in 1999, highlighting the differences and similarities as well as the methods and tools used to complete the new map. Vitor Silva, GEM Risk Team Leader, presented the global earthquake risk map comprised of national and regional exposure and vulnerability models. It is the most comprehensive global assessment of earthquake risk to date. The products released at the event are as follows: 1. Hazard and risk maps (print and PDF/PNG downloadable files) 2. Interactive map tool Global hazard map with PGA value for selected cell Global exposure with number & value of buildings per country Global risk map with average annual economic losses per country, link to risk profile 3. V1.0 Country Profiles for around 120 countries (PDF download) 4. Updated Active Fault Database (on github) 5. Updated vulnerability Database (300 functions) “The GEM family is very pleased with the products that have been released today. But the more significant achievement was the process on how we got here, the principles that guided us: collaboration, credibility, openness and public good,” said John Schneider – GEM Secretary General. More products and enhancements are planned for the next two years such as the availability of all the models in OpenQuake engine, improved exposure data and vulnerability functions as well as updated Country Risk Profiles. Peer-reviewed technical papers for the many contributions to the earthquake hazard and risk models will be published in a special issue of Earthquake Spectra in early 2020. LINKS Event Details Feedback Contact Us 1. Introduction & Agenda 2. Participants 3. How we built the maps and models Global Earthquake Hazard overview (53MB ) Global Earthquake Risk overview (435MB ) 4. Featured Presentations Urban risk and resilience Developing an urban earthquake risk assessment capability and applications to cities in Colombia (7.9MB ) Developing a National Earthquake Resilience Strategy for Canada (13MB ) Disaster impact and closing the protection gap Impacts and lessons from the recent Indonesian earthquakes in Lombok and Palu, Indonesia (55MB ) Closing the protection gap for developing countries (2.1MB ) 5. Global Maps , Country Profiles and Interactive Viewer 6. GEM2018 Highlights (video) 7. GEM2018 Full Video (playlist) Introduction Global Earthquake Hazard presentation Global Earthquake Risk Presentation Developing an urban earthquake risk assessment capability and applications to cities in Colombia Developing a National Earthquake Resilience Strategy for Canada Impacts and lessons from the recent Indonesian earthquakes in Lombok and Palu, Indonesia Closing the protection gap for developing countries Panel 1: Uses for the maps and models Panel 2: Drivers and demands for the maps and models Panel 3: Future Directions for models Exploring the maps Breakout Sessions GEM-Chinese Earthquake Administration MoU signing, and Closing Remarks 8. Flickr Photos Set 1 | Set 2 9. 5thDEC Press Release & Online News 10. Post Event Interviews 11. GEM2018 Breakout Sessions with Prof. Iain Stewart GEM2018 In Photos Set 1 Set 2 Photo credit: Ivan Sarfatti

News INQUIMUS into ACTION Workshop By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM’s Paul Henshaw, Director of Technology and Development, delivered a presentation titled “OpenQuake: informing Disaster Risk Reduction Policy through open and collaborative Earthquake Risk Assessment” during the 4th INQUIMUS workshop held from 19th-21st September at Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy. The organizers - the Department of Geoinformatics-Z_GIS at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) - selected GEM’s presentation as one of the state-of-the-art talks (SOTA) for this year’s theme: “INQUIMUS into ACTION - How can scientific assessments inform decisions for problem-solving in practice”. Paul discussed how GEM promotes an integrated understanding of earthquake risk through a 3-step scientific framework composed of seismic hazard, physical risk and social vulnerability assessments using the OpenQuake engine - GEM’s state-of-the-art seismic hazard and risk computational software. He also emphasized the role of the OpenQuake Platform - a website that provides access to software, datasets, models and guidelines - on how these open tools and a collaborative approach promote stakeholder engagement and encourages risk mitigation actions. In addition, the presentation also highlighted GEM’s strategy of engaging end-users from the very beginning to ensure local conditions are reflected and outputs align with the needs of the local communities. During the discussion on how GEM used open tools to inform and contribute to the improvement of public policy, Paul said, “Throughout our work at GEM, the combination of open data, open models and open-source software have resulted in a powerful integrated workflow that permits transparent and repeatable calculations important not only for scientific credibility, but also for facilitating regulation compliance and community collaboration." The 4th INQUIMUS workshop also featured the works and experiences from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency and the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Germany (BBK). No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News GEM METEOR project releases exposure datasets for more than 40 countries By: Nov 25, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn The METEOR Project celebrated UNDRR’s recent International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction by releasing exposure data for 44 Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipient countries, including the corresponding interactive maps. The objective of the project is to formulate an innovative methodology of creating exposure data through the use of Earth Observation (EO)-based imagery to identify development patterns throughout a country. The METEOR protocols and standards for combining traditional land use interpretation methods with EO and in-field building characteristics to capture the distribution of building types have been pilot tested in Nepal and Tanzania. Specifically, the project aims to deliver exposure data for 47 of the least developed ODA countries, ; to create hazard footprints for the pilot countries Nepal and Tanzania; to create open protocols showing how to collect data and apply techniques in other countries; and to build capacity of local stakeholders to apply data and assess hazard exposure. The project is expected to benefit a wide spectrum of stakeholders such as governments, NGOs, affected communities and businesses, seeking to bolster resilience and growth. To download the data visit, . To view interactive maps of the data, visit . No images found. GALLERY 1/3 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Technology transfer in the Middle East By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn The four-day workshop organized by GEM in collaboration with the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) on March 14-18 continues the work carried out by the partners in the region and lays the foundation for long-term collaboration. In the framework of the USAID/OFDA-funded project, the workshop was implemented as part of the process to develop tools and procedures needed to establish a global network of GEM implementing partners. They will have the capacity to perform risk analyses and provide technical support and training in their regions, while coordinating with the GEM Secretariat in the improvement of methodologies and models according to local needs.Participants came from eight countries in the Middle East area (including Turkey), which had already contributed to the Earthquake Model for the Middle East (EMME) project under KOERI’s leadership. This time they were guided on the use of the OpenQuake-engine to perform urban risk assessments. The impact of the training was immediate: by the end of the workshop all participants managed to run a large number of hazard and risk calculations and visualize the resulting hazard, damage and loss estimates. Thanks to the training, participants had the opportunity to perform scenario calculations for their own regions and obtain damage and loss statistics for their cities. “This was one of the most successful workshops we have ever organized – said Vitor Silva, Risk Coordinator at GEM – “and I was impressed by the rapid learning ability on the use of the GEM tools”. This is certainly also a testimony to the improved computational efficiency and usability of the OpenQuake-engine interface and shows that GEM is on the right path in the development of its tools and methodologies, as well as in the adoption of appropriate technology-transfer mechanisms. Moreover, participants were impressed by the wide range of data and models available in the OpenQuake Platform and provided positive feedback on its potential contribution to the reduction of disaster risk around the world. The workshop ended with a short introduction to socio-economic vulnerability and integrated risk assessment and a dedicated session on the way forward. The participants decided to create a GEM-EMME community to promote long-term collaboration under KOERI‘s and GEM’s leadership. A corresponding proposal was submitted by the participants immediately after the workshop. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS