News CRAVE ‘Twin’ Workshops in Colombia and Indonesia By: May 23, 2019 Share Facebook LinkedIn CRAVE workshop participants - Indonesia. Photo credit: IT Bandung Bogota, Colombia Members of the USAID-supported project – Collaborative Risk Assessment for Volcanoes and Earthquakes or CRAVE from Colombia participated in a 2-day workshop to discuss volcanic threats and risks. The Servicio Geológico Colombiano (SGC) hosted the workshop from May 15-16, 2019. The workshop was divided into two parts: a morning session focused on earthquake and volcanic hazard and risk in Colombia, where the SGC, the National Unit for Disaster Risk Reduction in Colombia (UNGRD) and the GEM Foundation presented to a general audience the achievements and challenges that the country currently faces. This session was attended by 40 people representing seven governmental institutions (Ministry of Housing, Ministry of Environment, Department of National Planning, National Administrative Department of Statistics, and Instituto Distrital de Gestión de Riesgos y Cambio Climático), and 20 experts from the three main volcanological observatories in Colombia (Manizales, Popayan and Pasto). The second part of the workshop focused on the technical aspect of volcanic hazard and risk assessment using hazard footprints for four volcanic hazard components: lava flow, lahar, pyroclastic density currents, and ash fall. OpenQuake tools for volcanic risk analysis were used for the Ruiz Volcano pilot case and hazard footprints were discussed for five other volcanoes (Galeras, Puracé, Azufral, Cumbal and Chiles). For volcanic threats, participants agreed that the hazard products to be developed must be adapted to the needs of risk assessment in order to arrive at a more realistic view of risk. It was also mentioned that more technical discussion is needed for the probabilistic modelling of other volcanic phenomena e.g. ash fall to establish realistic probabilities or rates of occurrence of such phenomena. The discussion on volcanic risk highlighted the importance of factoring in communication and social risk metrics such as damage to roads and airports and access to clean water, as they can significantly impact the modification/adjustment or formulation of risk management strategies. Bandung, Indonesia In the following week, a similar event took place in Bandung (Indonesia), with support from the Institute of Technology of Bandung (ITB). The event featured a day of presentations and discussion with representatives from the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM), the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works, the National Disaster Management Agency (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana - BNPB), the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika - BMKG), the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) and the British Geological Survey (BGS). This part of the workshop provided an opportunity to discuss and better understand the current gaps in volcano, earthquake and tsunami hazard and risk assessment in the region and beyond. On the second day of the event, 40 participants employed OpenQuake for the estimation of economic losses and damage due to earthquake and volcano scenarios. The participants highlighted the need for open tools for risk assessment and to share data concerning exposure and disaster loss to improve or calibrate existing models. Data such as exposure and disaster loss are required for monitoring of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. CRAVE is funded by USAID to develop a common framework for the assessment of the impact from earthquakes and volcanoes, with the support of experts from the Philippines, Indonesia, Colombia, United Kingdom and Singapore. No images found. GALLERY Colombia CRAVE workshop Colombia CRAVE workshop Colombia CRAVE workshop Colombia CRAVE workshop 1/19 CRAVE workshops in Colombia and Indonesia. Photo credit: SGC and IT Bandung VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM and ImageCat partnership aims to provide hazard, exposure and risk information to support global risk and disaster management By: Jun 3, 2021 Share Facebook LinkedIn Coming off of a successful collaboration in the METEOR project, ImageCat and GEM have formally entered into a partnership agreement to integrate GEM’s global hazard and risk information on earthquakes into ImageCat’s multi-hazard risk management decision support platform - . The first datasets to go online will be outputs of GEM’s global earthquake hazard and risk models. These datasets will provide geospatial information layers for insurance and risk management clients to quickly assess their relative earthquake risks. ImageCat is an international risk management innovation company supporting the global risk and catastrophe management needs of the insurance industry, governments and NGOs. Inhance® platform developed by ImageCat for the insurance industry provides users the analytical tools and data layers to manage and price insurance portfolios. As a leading provider of risk and disaster management technologies, ImageCat is highly regarded for cutting-edge products, services, and R&D activities, targeting decision support needs at all phases of the disaster management cycle. “GEM is keen to start a new chapter of partnership with ImageCat in mutually providing hazard, exposure and risk information to support the global risk and disaster management needs of our partners and clients. We’ve already successfully collaborated on several projects over the past decade, so this partnership is the next logical step in the development of our relationship.” – John Schneider, GEM Secretary General. ImageCat and GEM worked together with six other organizations in the recently concluded METEOR project in delivering exposure data for close to 50 countries, protocols and standards for exposure data collection and analysis aimed at helping developing countries fill the knowledge gap in disaster risk management strategy formulation. “With this partnership, we are optimistic that our organizations would be able to deliver more tailored solutions to help increase awareness of catastrophe risk to help reduce overall human and economic losses worldwide.” Ron Eguchi, President, ImageCat. To access GEM’s global earthquake hazard data through the inhance platform, please contact ImageCat at or email Shubharoop Ghosh at . For more details about ImageCat, visit their website at http://www.imagecatinc.com/. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News World-leading reinsurance broker, Guy Carpenter collaborates with GEM on earthquake risk modelling By: Oct 7, 2019 Share Facebook 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

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News GEM participates in the 2nd Scientific Seminar of the Knowledge Centre for Disaster Risk Management: Science for Policy and Operations By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM participated in the 2nd Scientific Seminar of the DRMKC held from March 9-10, 2017 in Rome. This year’s theme is Science for Policy and Operations. Paul Henshaw, representing GEM presented the capabilities and latest features of the OpenQuake engine, GEM’s state-of-the-art, open source software for seismic hazard and risk modeling, to a group of interdisciplinary experts on Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation including scientists, practitioners and policy-makers at national, regional and international levels as well as first responders, and private sector representatives. This year’s seminar aims to address the challenges for policy and science in Disaster Risk Reduction including Disaster Risk Management capabilities assessment and Sendai monitoring framework, and to draw concrete recommendations for the upcoming Global Platform that will be held in Cancun, Mexico in May. The 2-day seminar attracted around 100 inter-disciplinary experts on disaster management, early detection, forecasting, warning and risk assessment of natural and man-made disasters, in both the fields of civil protection and humanitarian aid. The Italian Department of Civil Protection hosted the 2nd Annual Scientific Seminar from 9-10 March 2017, Rome, Italy. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Publications Compilation and critical review of GMPEs for the GEM-PEER Global GMPEs Project Share Facebook LinkedIn Download 2012 | Peer-reviewed Ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) relate a ground-motion parameter (e.g. peak ground acceleration, PGA) to a set of explanatory variables describing the source, wave propagation path and site conditions. In the past five decades many hundreds of GMPEs for the prediction of PGA and linear elastic response spectral ordinates have been published. We discuss the pre-selection of GMPEs undertaken within the framework of the GEM-PEER Global GMPEs Project. The pre-selection criteria adopted were consistent with the current state-ofthe-art in ground-motion characterization and sought to retain only the most robust GMPEs. Consideration of broad tectonic regionalization (e.g. shallow crustal seismicity in tectonically-active areas, stable continental regions and subduction zones) was made but it was assumed (based on previous studies) that strong regional differences were not present within these tectonic classes. In total about thirty GMPEs were pre-selected for closer inspection and testing to obtain a final set of ground-motion models.

News Science for Social Change: A Q&A with Prof. Ana Beatriz Acevedo of EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia By: Mar 17, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn Prof. Ana Beatriz, second from left, at the OpenQuake workshop in Medellin, 2017. In this pilot story, GEM interviewed Prof. Ana Beatriz Acevedo of Universidad EAFIT to get to know her insights, perspectives and her work in Colombia around earthquake risk awareness, understanding and resilience. The interview focused on how she got involved with GEM, and what inspired her to join the SARA project. Watch an excerpt from her interview entitled: Change can start with one’s self . The full story is available at . If you're a GEM partner and have a story to share that leverages GEM products and expert advice; or concretely showcases GEM impact or use of GEM products in your organization, email us at . We would love to feature your success stories! No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News Communicating Risk: How we respond to risk and what that means for communication By: May 21, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM participated recently in a UNDRR Geneva-sponsored webinar facilitated by Jeanette Elsworth, UNDRR Senior Public Information Officer. The webinar explores the emotive way people respond to risk, why even if armed with all the facts, we may still have trouble persuading people to do the right thing. The webinar also touched on what behavioral economics can teach us about the way we respond to risk, and how we apply this to policy making and public-facing media communications. Speakers include experts from behavioral economics and communications with introductory remarks from Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of UNDRR. Kate Orkin, Senior Research Fellow in Behavioral Economics at the University of Oxford talked about ‘Incorporating how we behave under risk into COVID-19 communications’. She proposed that key messages must: speak socially, invoke the future and use every touch point you can to be effective in changing the intended audience’s behavior. Lisa Robinson, Head of Advisory, BBC Media Action presented the ‘3 common mistakes in designing risk communication’. She said that failure of risk communication strategies is due to the following: skimping on audience research, creating a snazzy product without a strategy for change, and avoiding conversation about risks. Ranil Dissanayake, adviser to the UK Department for International Development added that key messages and how they are designed are important in behavioral change but he also pointed out that key messages alone cannot be effective if the target demographic is faced by more immediate problems such as joblessness, poverty and hunger. However, he agreed with Kate and Lisa on the importance of understanding the intended audience in order to be effective in communicating risk. During the discussion, a trending topic focused on the importance of risk communication in changing behaviors, but participants also recognized the fact that it’s expensive and requires a lot of sustained work. Stephanie Speck, Head of Communications, Advocacy, Knowledge Management and IT, UNDRR gave the closing remarks, highlighting the possibility of a follow up webinar focusing on how to develop and implement a communication strategy when financial, material and human resources are limited. For the latest in risk communication online training and workshops, visit . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS