News Strong Response to GEM Public Partnership Call By: Jul 7, 2025 Jun 5, 2025 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM’s 2025 Public Sponsorship Call has drawn strong interest from around the world, with 14 applications received from 13 countries following the launch webinar held on 10 April. The call aims to expand GEM’s network of public partners committed to advancing earthquake risk understanding and applying science to benefit society. Participants from national geological services, disaster risk agencies and technical institutions joined the April webinar to learn more about GEM’s public sponsorship scheme. The scheme offers access to advanced tools, collaboration opportunities and support in developing national seismic hazard and risk models tailored to local needs. Applications have been received from Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia (2), Uganda, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Slovenia, Portugal, Iran, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia. The proposals reflect a broad range of national priorities in disaster risk management. Focus areas include: Development or updating of national seismic hazard and risk models Integration of earthquake early warning systems Establishment or enhancement of national disaster insurance funds Strategies for safe schools and resilient communities Cost–benefit assessment of retrofitting interventions Use of GEM software and models for rapid impact assessment GEM is now in the shortlisting stage, prioritising proposals that demonstrate strong local ownership, data-sharing commitments, and alignment with GEM’s core values of openness, collaboration and public good. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by GEM to discuss next steps and potential areas for collaboration, subject to further evaluation and approval. Expanding the public sponsor base is critical to improving global coverage of seismic hazard and risk data – especially in regions where existing information is limited or outdated. Final decisions will be announced later in 2025. For more information, visit the event page or contact info@globalquakemodel.org . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News News Briefs: Meetings, Workshops and Conferences July-Sept 2019 By: Oct 9, 2019 Share Facebook 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

Post Event List PURPOSE The purpose of this page is to provide GEM website visitors, researchers, loss modellers, and emergency and disaster risk reduction professionals with specific downloadable information related to red alert events based on USGS PAGER alerts. GEM promotes the sharing of seismic hazard and risk information with a wide range of stakeholders to enhance understanding of damaging earthquake events. This initiative aims not only to give an overview of the models, data and publications available in areas recently impacted by earthquakes, but also hopes to serve as a resource that can inform future risk reduction strategies. The information provided is intended solely for situational awareness purposes and is not aimed towards driving an official emergency response. Please contact your local authorities for further assistance related to official emergency response services and support. 29th July 2025 M8.8 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Peninsula, Russia On 30 July 2025, at 11:24:52 PETT (23:24:52 UTC, 29 July), a Mw 8.8 megathrust earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, 119 km (74 mi) east-southeast of the coastal city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kamchatka_Peninsula_earthquake USGS PAGER Alert https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/pager Related GEM Products Name Description North Asia Exposure Repository with the inventory of residential, commercial and industrial buildings in North Asia Northeast Asia Hazard OpenQuake engine input model to perform hazard calculations for Northeast Asia Active Faults Database A repository with global homogenised characteristics of active faults Global Seismic Risk Map A milestone in global earthquake risk assessment Global Vulnerability Model Sets of functions to assess the consequences of earthquakes on the built environment of the world Global Seismic Hazard Map Openly accessible global datasets and plots for peak ground acceleration with a return period of 475 years on rock No content. Related GEM Publications Understanding seismic risk in Santiago de Cali (Colombia) for its application in risk management Earthquake-induced liquefaction and landslides in Cali, Colombia Modelling the Residential Building Inventory in South America for Seismic Risk Assessment Tipologías constructivas en Quito, Cali and Santiago de los Caballeros Seismic risk assessment for the residential buildings of the three major cities in Colombia: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali Executive summary Urban seismic risk assessment for the cities of Quito, Cali and Santiago de los Caballeros Scenario selection for representative earthquakes in Quito, Cali and Santiago de los Caballeros Assessment of earthquake damage considering the characteristics of past events in South America Evaluación de Riesgo Sísmico para Santiago de Cali Model of seismic design regulations and lateral force coefficients for buildings in South America Exploring the seismic risk of the unreinforced masonry building stock in Antioquia, Colombia Modelling the Residential Building Inventory in South America for Seismic Risk Assessment No content. Other Related Products GEM Vulnerability Model for Colombia GEM's country risk profile for Colombia GEM's Country Risk Profile for Venezuela GEM Vulnerability Model for Venezuela GEM Exposure Model for Venezuela GEM's country risk profile for Japan GEM Exposure Model for Japan GEM Vulnerability Model for Japan GEM's country risk profile for Afghanistan GEM vulnerability model for Afghanistan GEM exposure model for Afghanistan (admin 1) Other Related Publications South America Risk Assessment (SARA) Project GEM's PSHA input model documentation for Middle East 1234 Yang et al. (2023) Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for Myanmar and its metropolitan areas. Geoscience Letters, 10(1), 48 Tun et al. (2017) The Sagaing Fault, Myanmar. In A. J. Barber, K. Zaw, & M. J. Crow (Eds.), Myanmar: Geology, Resources and Tectonics (Vol. 48, p. 0). The Geological Society of London GEM's PSHA input model documentation for SouthEast Asia GEM's PSHA input model documentation for China GEM's PSHA input model documentation for China DISCLAIMER The information and data provided on this page are for informational purposes only. The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation makes no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the data. Users are responsible for their own interpretation and use of the information. GEM shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or injury arising from the use of, or reliance on, the information provided on this page. By downloading or utilising the data, users acknowledge and agree to these terms. The information presented on this page is provided by different organisations and governed by different licenses, please check the individual license before use. CONTACT US

News TREQ OpenQuake Online Training: Earthquake Scenarios - Ground Motion Fields By: Sep 21, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn The GEM TREQ project team successfully conducted its full OpenQuake online training on September 18th after a series of pilot activities over the last two months. Participants from Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, Mexico and El Salvador participated in the online training. Catalina Yepes and Alejandro Calderon led and facilitated the first of two sessions for Module II – Part 1: Earthquake Scenarios - Ground Motion Fields. Part 2 is scheduled on September 25th. The Ground Motion Fields session covered concepts in seismic faults, ground shaking intensity, ground motion models (GMPEs) and ground motion fields (GMFs). Facilitators presented and demonstrated how to model a fault rupture in OpenQuake, how to prepare the required input files, how to run various examples, and how to compare results based on the modelling assumptions. A participant from Costa Rica, who has attended previous workshops in person commented “…the workshops have been very good. The online modality has been better than expected. If the sessions are converted into video materials, they would be useful!”. The GEM Risk Team has produced complementary video materials for the workshops, already available on l and currently in use in courses at EAFIT University and University of El Salvador. As part of TREQ’s activities to promote the project, Alejandro Calderon gave a presentation on "Seismic risk assessment using free access tools" upon the invitation of the College of Civil Engineers of Tijuana, through their Center of Continuing Education in Civil Engineering. The webinar was held on August 17, 2020. You can find the presentation (in Spanish) in the following links: The OpenQuake online training initiative is part of the TREQ project activities, led by the GEM Foundation and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). It is designed to build the capacity of risk professionals with a diverse background and expertise, on earthquake risk assessment and the use of the basic features of the OpenQuake engine. Download the to learn more about the topics and upcoming schedules. No images found. GALLERY 1/2 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM-World Bank/GFDRR-DFID challenge fund projects kick off By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn The GFDRR-DFID Challenge Fund projects on the development of exposure, vulnerability and hazard footprints databases kicked off with a 2-day inception workshop held at GEM Headquarters from 10-11 April 2017. Several organizations attended the workshop led by World Bank’s GFDRR, British Geological Survey (BGS), GEM Foundation and the University College London (UCL). BGS leads the development of a data schema and data for a multi-hazard database (Challenge 1) while GEM and University College London lead the development of a global exposure database (Challenge 2) and open vulnerability platform for evaluating risk (Challenge 3) respectively. GEM also contributes to Challenge Fund 1 and 3. The goal of the workshop is to integrate the three Challenge Funds so that the final product contributes to the broader objectives of the building evidence for action on disaster risk management and the Sendai Framework. Alanna Simpson, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist and leader of the GFDRR Labs team notes that “GEM has done very well in the development of earthquake exposure data” but added that “the idea of the three Challenge Funds is for people to collect information - hazard, exposure and vulnerability - on the built environment at the same time for multiple perils.” She further adds that “the projects would not only develop an exposure database schema that will allow people to collect data only once for many purposes, but would also look into how this framework would be flexible enough to take the top down and bottom up information, including official and non-official data so that they can be used to build the whole picture.” The GFDRR-DFID Challenge Fund seeks to bridge the gap between technology and on-the-ground user needs in the field of disaster risk identification. The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a global partnership that helps developing countries better understand and reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change.For more information, visit https://www.gfdrr.org and https://www.gfdrr.org/the-challenge-fund . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Resilience Performance Scorecard (RPS) in San Jose de Costa Rica By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn Some 43 community members and 39 officials from San Jose, Costa Rica participated in GEM’s resilience performance and social vulnerability evaluation using GEM’s Resilience Performance Scorecard (RPS). The Municipality of San Jose, the National Commission of Emergencies (CNE) of Costa Rica, the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models (LANAME) from the University of Costa Rica and USAID supported the workshop held from June 15-16. The objective was to empower stakeholders of disaster management institutions and leaders of the community to assess earthquake risk and resilience using innovative data collection technologies. This assessment allows the stakeholders to identify the achievements and the gaps in the resilience of the city. The first draft of the report of the results will be ready in September and will be made public once the report has been approved by the Municipality of San Jose and the CNE of Costa Rica. The RPS workshop is part of GEM’s Assessing and Mitigating Earthquake Risk in the Caribbean and Central America (CCARA) Project. The objectives of the project are: to develop capacity in the region of Central America and the Caribbean for earthquake risk assessment by leveraging GEM tools and resources, to enhance the understanding of earthquake risk, and to bridge the gap between risk assessment and disaster risk reduction. GEM’s RPS is being used as an essential step to understand and enhance the resilience of cities to earthquakes by measuring baseline conditions of what makes communities resilient. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM Foundation and El Salvador's MARN Conclude Successful OpenQuake Engine and Tools Training By: Dec 14, 2023 Nov 9, 2023 Share Facebook LinkedIn On November 9th, 2023, the GEM Foundation, in collaboration with El Salvador's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), conducted a comprehensive seismic hazard workshop at FEPADE in El Salvador. Part of the USAID - Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance-supported Forecasting and Communicating Earthquake Hazard and Risk (FORCE) Project, the 1-day training workshop focused on Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA), Risk Analysis, and utilising the OpenQuake (OQ) Engine. The training workshop introduced classical PSHA and important concepts used to develop PSHA input models. Participants got an overview of PSHA modelling techniques, with sessions on seismic source and ground motion characterisation, and demonstrating their implementation in the OQ Engine. Hands-on sessions involved practical exercises, including a demonstration using the QGIS plugin for PSHA calculations related to the CCARA model and visualising the results. The session also included basic concepts on scenario impact assessment and preview of scenario response risk profiles for El Salvador. Moreover, throughout the week of November 6-11, technical workshops with GEM and MARN engineers and scientists covered multiple facets of hazard and risk assessment. Hazard sessions included practical demonstrations utilising the Modelling Building Toolkit (MBTK) to update El Salvador's national seismic hazard model. These comprehensive workshops showcased the application of new or updated modules of the MBTK within the context of enhancing seismic hazard assessment strategies. Risk sessions focused on additional training for the MARN team, covering scenario impact and event-based methodologies for risk assessment. A couple of technical sessions were dedicated to the review of the national exposure model, the use of local vulnerability functions and techniques for validation of the country’s risk model inputs. This initiative contributes to building local expertise in seismic hazard and risk assessment, enhancing El Salvador's earthquake resilience. The workshop's success owes much to the dedicated local partners' invaluable contributions. The event marks a crucial step forward in strengthening El Salvador's preparedness and response capabilities in seismic risk management. To learn more about the FORCE Project, visit: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/proj/force . No images found. GALLERY 1000015745.jpg 1000015744.jpg 2Ministry of Environment in El Salvador.png 1000015745.jpg 1/26 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Celebrating Achievements and Way Forward By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn As GEM’s first Working Programme (2009-2013) draws to a close, the GEM Foundation presents to partners, collaborators and stakeholders worldwide, ”Celebrating achievements & looking forward”, GEM vision document for global earthquake risk assessment and a sustainable future for GEM. ”The document celebrates GEM’s journey from the idea of a handful of determined individuals, to what has now become a global community, a solid reality and an authoritative voice in earthquake risk assessment globally” said Rui Pinho, GEM Secretary-General. Right from its inception, GEM chose the less travelled road to increase earthquake resilience, building its work and community around the principles of openness, transparency, inclusiveness, equitable access, solid science and collaborative work across sectors, geographies, and disciplines. At the end of GEM’s first Working Programme, GEM’s unique approach has proven to be the right one; the breadth and wealth of tools and resources developed and being developed, through the involvement of global scientists and stakeholders, is advancing the science and technology needed for global state-of-the-art seismic hazard and risk modelling, data collection, and risk assessment at scales from global, to regional and national. This strategic document shares the successes but also the challenges and the issues that GEM needs to address as it moves towards its second Working Programme (2014-2018). Long-term impact and sustainability are crucial for the achievement of GEM’s mission. From 2014 onwards, GEM’s focus will shift towards practical implementation, public communication and development of datasets and tools at a local scale, to increase the applicability of the products in the OpenQuake platform for reliable risk mitigation. GEM will look at different collaboration opportunities in order to permeate different levels of risk management, and transfer and translate GEM products into accessible resources at different levels of governance from global to regional, to local. With the support of current and future partners, collaborators and stakeholders worldwide, GEM will continue to engage in a wide range of partnerships to advance the science required to assess the risk of the complex interconnected systems within which we live, and increase resilience to earthquakes globally. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News COMET-GEM Seismic Hazard Workshop and OpenQuake Training By: Sep 15, 2022 Share Facebook LinkedIn From June 29th to July 1st, the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) co-hosted a workshop with GEM at the Earth Sciences Department, University of Oxford, UK. The event brought together 25 participants from 12 institutes with diverse research interests, including: active tectonics, paleoseismology, precariously balanced rocks, strain mapping, ground motion modelling, physics-based fault modelling, observational seismology, induced seismicity, and volcanology. The workshop theme was to find the intersection between seismic hazard analysis and the research topics of interest to COMET scientists, with the goals of learning how their research results are currently used by seismic hazard modellers, and imagining ways to increase their utility. The workshop aimed to achieve these goals with a balance of PSHA lectures, OpenQuake Engine training, interactive exercises, discussion, and participant presentations. On the first day, Kendra Johnson, GEM Hazard Scientist, gave an introduction to probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) and walked the participants through the hazard component of the OpenQuake Engine. On the second day, Richard Styron, GEM Active Faults Specialist, discussed bridging the gaps between research and seismic hazard models, delving into the issues and challenges in transitioning from being a hazard researcher to a hazard modeller. Marco Pagani, GEM Hazard Coordinator joined the discussion and provided his insights on the topic. On the third day, the participants explored how the seismic source parameterization and assumptions made in the first steps of PSHA impact hazard calculation results. The workshop concluded with a lecture by Manuela Villani, GEM Senior Hazard Scientist, on incorporating epistemic uncertainties into PSHA, and brief research presentations by a few participants. The workshop was organised as part of a collaborative project between the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - COMET and GEM with funding support from NERC. The project is working to combine field data, InSAR, global navigation satellite system (GNSS), remote-sensing and block modelling to develop new seismic hazard models. NERC is the leading funder of UK environmental science and a GEM public sponsor. No images found. GALLERY 1/2 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS