News GEM reaching out in Addis Ababa By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn Risk Coordinator Vitor Silva was invited to deliver a presentation on our work and participated in one of the panel sessions. Our team were very active in the many official forums, as well as promoting GEM through social media and face-to-face discussion with delegates at our display booth. In a standing-room-only interactive event led by Carlos Villacis, Chris Burton, and Vitor Silva, our work in Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa was enthusiastically attended, drawing the highest number of participants of all the sessions on the conference’s closing day. While in the Ethiopian capital, our new Fund-raiser, Chris Wardle and Socioeconomic-Vulnerabilities Coordinator Chris Burton met with senior staff from the USAID’s Regional Office, with Chris Burton’s overview of GEM being very well received. The GEM team were also able to establish a working relationship with the Fire Emergency Prevention and Rescue Agency (FEPRA), as one of the key building blocks for a city-level risk assessment for Addis Ababa, planned under our USAID-funded SSAHARA programme. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News GEM-SERA OpenQuake Training in Istanbul, Turkey By: Oct 7, 2019 Share Facebook LinkedIn SERA-GEM workshop participants Istanbul, Turkey 2019 More than 50 individuals from 17 countries participated in the OpenQuake training on September 13th held in Istanbul, Turkey. GEM’s Vitor Silva, Luis Martins and Venetia Despotaki demonstrated the main steps on how to run the probabilistic event-based risk calculator for a country and produce the various risk metrics of the European risk model. The training was part of a 2-day SERA European Seismic Risk Workshop organized by the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Bogazici University, GEM and EUCENTRE SERA project. The objective of the workshop was to review the European Seismic Risk Model. Partners of the SERA project presented updates on each of the main components of the European risk model: Laurentiu Danciu (ETH) for the European seismic hazard model (ESHM 2020); Kyriazis Pitilakis (AUTH) and Graeme Weatherill (GFZ) for the site amplification model; Venetia Despotaki (GEM) for the residential and non-residential exposure model; and Vitor Silva (GEM) for the physical vulnerability model, socio-economic vulnerability model, and OpenQuake-engine calculations, testing and calibration. Speakers from the insurance industry, international disaster risk organisations and national civil protection agencies also shared their experiences with the European seismic risk model. No images found. GALLERY 1/5 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News GEM presents the OpenQuake Engine to EDF and CEA scientists and engineers By: Mar 18, 2019 Share Facebook LinkedIn About 10 scientists and engineers from Électricité de France (EDF), a nuclear electric power generation company and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), participated in the presentation and meeting on GEM's OpenQuake Engine held at the EDF lab - Paris Saclay from February 26 to March 1, 2019. The meeting focused on the description of the main features of the seismic hazard component of the OpenQuake Engine and its potential use for site-specific studies. During the 4-day meeting workshop, the GEM team composed of Marco Pagani, Hazard Team Coordinator and Michele Simionato, Senior OpenQuake Developer described the main tools developed by GEM for the construction of components of a hazard model. The participants provided many useful suggestions on potential improvements to be introduced into the engine. These suggestions as well as other scientific topics will be at the core of the initial collaboration between GEM and EDF/CEA, which proposes to utilize the OpenQuake-engine for research in probabilistic seismic hazard assessment. No images found. GALLERY 1/2 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Understanding Earthquake Risk: A must in urban disaster risk management By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM successfully raised awareness and interest on the need for a global collaborative effort to assess urban risk due to earthquakes and other natural hazards. GEM facilitated the session during the 8th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation held in Bonn, Germany from May 4-6. "The main goal is to continue establishing collaboration networks with the cities and institutions starting with those involved in the session to ensure cities are ready when an earthquake strike,” John Schneider, GEM Secretary General. Panelists from Latin America, Asia and Europe, and participants (including mayors and local authorities from cities around the world, and representatives of international organizations working on urban development such as ICLEI, Rockefeller Foundation and UN-Habitat) agreed to further discuss needs, interest and expectations of potential beneficiary cities; implementation modalities and required partnerships; and interaction and complementarity with other relevant initiatives in order to attain the goals of building resilient cities. Mr. David Jácome Polit, the Director of Resilience at the Metropolitan Institute of Urban Planning (IMPU) and the Chief Resilience Officer from 100 Resilient Cities in Quito, Ecuador presented the scheme, objectives, and tools to increase the resilience in the city.Mr. Takashi Otsuka, Director at ICLEI Japan Office – Asia presented the use of Electric Vehicles (EV) and Plug-in Hybrid (PHV) for electricity back up after earthquakes as a solution for supplying power for medical devices warming up meals, lighting, heating or air condition. Mr. Georg Schwarz, Consultant Corporate Responsibility, from Munich RE, one of GEM’s main sponsors, presented the case of Aizawl, Mizoram (India), in which Munich RE supported the risk reduction actions for landslides triggered by earthquakes, while the actions for Disaster Risk Reduction in Dhankuta (Nepal), with the respective lessons learnt and recommendations were presented by Nush Raj Shrestha, Senior City Manager of the City. The 8th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation featured more than 440 participants from over 55 countries, 40 sessions and a number of side events, making the Congress an outstanding platform for learning, sharing ideas, and creating solutions. The conference was hosted by ICLEI and held in Bonn, Germany from May 4-6. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News John Schneider: GEM’s new Secretary General By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn What inspired you to apply for the position of the Secretary General? To me it GEM is a program that is very much needed; it uniquely combines science, engineering, and social science, but it is also pushing the boundaries in the development of methodologies, tools, and open data in a true integration of information, making it available for the common good. GEM is also a bridge between academic science and genuine applications for decision making in Disaster Risk Reduction. Operating at a global scale, the organisation fills a unique niche between research and application - and the world needs more organisations that do that! In March of 2009, when I was trying to get support from Australia to join GEM, we held the first official GEM workshop at Geoscience Australia during the program called GEM1, so I have been involved for a long time with GEM. I have also been on the Governing Board, later as Chair until the end of June last year.Working with GEM, to me brings everything that I have been interested and I have been doing in my career, all together in one place. GEM is a great organisation that is going to be around for a long time and I hope to contribute to that. Can you tell us a little about yourself, John Schneider, the person? I have always been interested in taking new challenges and now I am here with my wife (Jill Dobkin) who joined me to come to Italy and enjoy the life here. Our two children are now grown and have stayed in Australia: our son Bennett is in his fourth year at the Australian National University studying renewal energy systems and physics, and our daughter Margot has just finished high school and is using 2016 as a gap year.I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California at San Diego. I went to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where I did my PhD on earthquakes in Bucaramanga, Colombia. From there I did post-doctoral research at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington D.C., studying earthquakes Peru, including field work in the Amazonas. From there I worked with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in California and AON Corporation in Chicago, mainly on earthquake hazard models. In 2000 I moved with my family to Australia, where I was responsible for developing a multi-hazard risk assessment capability for the Geoscience Australia. The program grew to include many natural hazards - earthquake, tsunami, flood, volcanic ash, cyclone and bush (wild) fire - as well as man-made hazards and climate change. We built many open source models for hazard and risk assessment in Australia, and further developed and applied them in a program of capacity building in South East Asia and the Pacific, mainly in the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and South Pacific islands. What will be the priorities to address in your first months as Secretary General? My main priority is to further develop and implement a plan for organisational sustainability. Working with our partners, the Secretariat can build a solid foundation for the future. The short-term need is to increase sponsorship by approaching specific public and private organisations, and to secure project funding aimed at capacity building and completing the global earthquake model. In the longer term we need to expand our marketing approach to attract other sectors, such as financial, energy, and manufacturing and to gain more traction with donors in the disaster risk reduction sector, particularly in the context of the UN’s new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The other priority is around making the organisation itself, especially the Secretariat, a more confident and effective organisation. We also need to work on internal processes such as for information management, and roles and responsibilities of staff. Through these efforts, I think we can make GEM Foundation a more cohesive and a stronger organisation moving forward. What is your vision for GEM for the next three years?I see GEM becoming an integral part of the Disaster Risk Reduction community globally, as part of the overall development and application of earthquake and other natural hazards risk assessment capability. It follows then that I see us being better supported and used much more widely in both the public and private sectors. Finally, I see GEM realising its goal to reduce earthquake risk worldwide by developing and implementing risk assessment methodologies, tools, and information. What about the challenges associated with achieving the vision you articulated? GEM does so many things that are fundamental to developing and applying science to make the world a better place, such as:- The delivery of Open Source software and open data;- Development of international collaboration through public-private partnerships;- Reducing the gap between academics and practitioners;- Providing tools that are fit for purpose for decision making;Improving capacity in developing countries;- Building greater understanding of social vulnerability; and- Bridging science, engineering and social science - just to name a few.These are things that are actually much more challenging than integrating hazards into multi-hazard analysis. Through our partners we can add other hazards – that is relevantly easy. The hard part is developing the collaboration network and building the sense of common responsibility and ownership for how we work together and what we do. We now have hundreds of collaborators in nearly 100 countries working with us; and there are now over 1,300 subscribers to the OpenQuake Platform. This is a pretty solid base to work from! I also think GEM is extremely well grounded in its fundamental principles of openness, transparency, credibility and public good. The only question then is in what form GEM will be in the future, not whether it will exist. Although I don’t know the form, I know it will exist in some way because the demand for what GEM does and offers is much needed; so it is really up to us to be successful because we are doing so many things right - we just need a few more champions and a bit more confidence to do it. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Hands-on with the OpenQuake engine at the 4th GEM Annual Risk Workshop By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn From November 20th to 22nd, the GEM Foundation hosted the fourth edition of the Risk Workshop. The annual event brings together GEM partners from both the private and public sectors around the world to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing. It provides an opportunity to demonstrate new features and improvements on the OpenQuake suite of tools, as well as the latest developments in the hazard and risk models and datasets. This year, the workshop had the following specific goals: Explore GEM's risk datasets, models and tools Present GEM’s Risk Modeler’s Toolkit to derive fragility and vulnerability models Prepare exposure and vulnerability models for the OpenQuake-engine using the Input Preparation Toolkit (https://platform.openquake.org/ipt/) Perform seismic risk analysis and scenario loss estimations using the OpenQuake-engine Contribute to GEM’s Global Risk Modeling effort The event featured presentations from the GEM team, and several scenario risk calculations using the OpenQuake engine. The exercises allowed participants to experiment first hand how the engine works with the GEM Risk Team verifying and checking the results. Participants from ARUP (United Kingdom) demonstrated how some of the GEM tools were employed in the assessment of earthquake risk in Kyrgyzstan as part of a World Bank project. The partners from NSET (Nepal) presented how Nepal is recovering from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, and preparing other towns for future events by collecting detailed information regarding the built up environment. Aspen Re (Switzerland/UK) shared how GEM tools and models can be used to better understand the drivers of uncertainty in CAT modeling. Finally, Dr. Christopher Burton from Auburn University (USA) highlighted the need to go beyond the physical risk, and to incorporate the social aspects in the evaluation of earthquake threat. The workshop also had the participation of other experts from ETH, INGV, EUCENTRE, Zurich, CICESE, SCOR, AXA, PartnerRe, OYO, Pacific Disaster Center and NKUA. On the last day the participants enjoyed a guided tour of the EUCENTRE Foundation laboratories led by Dr. Filippo Dacarro, Lab Director. The tour included a visit to the old and new shake table, inaugurated in September 2017. The outcomes of the training were positive: for instance, Suman Pradhan and Kirty Tiwari from NSET, Nepal, mentioned the importance of the GEM Taxonomy for their work, and complimented the GEM Staff for the success of the event. They committed to returning to Nepal and train their colleagues on how to use OpenQuake. Katherine Coates, from ARUP, affirmed the discussions and presentations were excellent, and appreciated the hands-on practice and the activities offered by GEM. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM - Safehub collaboration to monitor earthquake risk of buildings By: Mar 18, 2019 Share Facebook LinkedIn John Schneider with Safehub staff (L to R): John Daniello, Alex Mead, Alessio Vallero, Andy Thompson (Safehub CEO) John Schneider, Doug Frazier (Safehub Co-Founder/Chairman) and Clement Barthes. On February 7th in San Francisco, GEM Secretary General John Schneider and Andy Thompson, Safehub CEO and Co-Founder signed an agreement to model the vulnerability of buildings directly from motion sensors installed in buildings. Safehub is developing and implementing low-cost sensors to monitor building vibrations and the response of buildings to earthquake shaking. The purpose of the project is to demonstrate how the inclusion of sensor data at building and portfolio levels can be used to reduce the uncertainty in estimating building vulnerability, and to use this information to improve model predictions of damage from earthquakes. In turn, the information from sensors and improved vulnerability estimates will be useful to building owners and risk managers for risk transfer and planning purposes (e.g., insurance) or post-earthquake response, including evacuation. The project, which will run to the end of 2019, will be led for GEM by Vitor Silva, GEM Risk Team Leader. Andy Thompson, a former member of the GEM Governing Board (representing Arup), and who was a panelist representing future GEM directions at the release of the global maps last December 2018, said “GEM is an ideal partner for Safehub, not just because of the science-based, flexible and open way in which it operates, but also because it has brought together a community of people that think across a broad spectrum of risk.” He added that Safehub’s technology, a physics-based approach to risk analysis is completely compatible with GEM’s OpenQuake Engine. Safehub provides structural health monitoring for all buildings, connecting real-time building-specific data to portfolio risk analysis. For more information on Safehub, visit their website at https://www.safehub.io . No images found. GALLERY Safehub's building shaking sensor Under the hood: building shaking sensor Safehub's building shaking sensor 1/4 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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