News GEM News Briefs December 2022 By: Dec 6, 2022 Share Facebook LinkedIn METIS meeting in Paris Marco Pagani and Thomas Chartier (GEM Hazard Team) participated in the METIS plenary meeting on 15-16 November. The meeting, organized by partner IRSN, was held at the Maison de la Recherche, in the city center of Paris. Day 1 included presentations on the Work Program progress. Day 2 was dedicated to technical and working meetings. Marco presented the GEM activities in finalizing the hazard component of the project, and Thomas illustrated the characteristics of the Seismic Source Characterization for the METIS test site located in Central Italy. METIS is a Horizon 2020 project whose mission is to develop and improve tools and methodologies employed in seismic safety assessments of nuclear reactors and translate this research into practice for industry use. GEM, represented by the Hazard and Risk Teams, is a technical collaborator contributing to the task of seismic hazard assessment and Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) Tools and Methodology. More about METIS at https://metis-h2020.eu/ . ----- Portuguese National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Catarina Costa and Vitor Silva participated in the 12th “Congresso Nacional de Sismologia e Engenharia Sísmica” held in Lisbon from November 9-11. Catarina presented ‘Seismic Risk Assessment of the Road Network and Hospital Accessibility in Lisbon’ as part of the parallel sessions of Theme 3 - Analysis and mitigation of seismic risk. Vitor presented ‘The Promise of New Technologies in The Evaluation of Earthquake Risk: Hype or Hope?’ in the Plenary Opening Session 1. He also presented ‘Earthquake Building Damage Detection Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning in the Theme 3 parallel session. The Portuguese Structural Engineering Conferences (JPEE) have been organized since 1982 by the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC) involving three national associations interested in structural engineering: the Portuguese Association of Structural Engineering (APEE), the Portuguese Concrete Group (GPBE) and the Portuguese Society of Earthquake Engineering (SPES). The Conferences, which take place every 8 years, have made a very significant contribution to the exchange of experiences and information in the field of structural engineering. For more event details, please visit http://jpee2022.lnec.pt/?fbclid=IwAR1RkC0srrL0Xmn1jJ4m-h2qrJj3mjcfDTSO8JtW6187FLcb1ZESIs3-714 . ----- International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 This year, the International Day focused on Target G of the Sendai Framework: “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.” The DRR Day 2022 slogan was “early warning for all”. In the spirit of DRR Day, GEM shared through social media and other online platforms the seismic risk assessment reports for the cities of Cali, Quito and Santiago to help increase availability of and access to disaster risk information and assessments of our stakeholders in South America. We’ve also shared through various online channels GEM’s Global Maps https://globalquakemodel.org/gem ; Country Risk Profiles https://globalquakemodel.org/country-risk-profiles ; and Open Products https://globalquakemodel.org/products as part of our contributions to make earthquake risk information available and accessible to the public at large. ----- Watch out for NRCan’s RiskProfiler website launch in March 2023 https://www.riskprofiler.ca/ RiskProfiler, a website developed by Natural Resources Canada, allows access, visualization, and exploration of information about the potential risks from earthquakes and is intended to support community planners, emergency managers, and Canadians at large to build resilience to earthquake hazards. Information on RiskProfiler is the outcome of a national earthquake risk assessment completed by Natural Resources Canada in partnership with the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. The website is now live, with the official announcement to take place in March 2023. ----- The GEM Secretariat is proud to welcome its newest member: Christopher Brooks Christopher is from the United Kingdom and is a seismic hazard modeller specialising in ground-motion characterization. Christopher joined the Hazard Team on December 1st. He has a PhD in probabilistic seismic hazard assessment from the University of Strathclyde. His PhD focused on the improvement of probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) in the North Sea, a region that contains a considerable amount of critical offshore infrastructure. North Sea PSHA was primarily enhanced through the improvement of appropriate ground-motion models, which was achieved through the implementation of novel statistical techniques including machine-learning algorithms. He has previously worked for Fugro SAS’s Land Services division as a Seismic Engineer. Christopher joined GEM because of the opportunity to contribute to the next generation of seismic hazard models through the application of his skillset in ground-motion modelling. He will contribute to the improvement of OpenQuake’s ground-motion characterization tools, as well as the development of ground-motion modelling projects in the future. ----- GEM updates its website The GEM Website has been updated in order to align its contents with GEM’s Strategic Plan and Roadmap to 2030 as well as to better serve our stakeholders and partners’ needs and requirements. We’ve made significant changes to the following pages below that we hope will make your browsing smoother, find information faster and your overall experience more enjoyable. Check out these updated pages and share with us what you think by clicking the Contact Us icon. -Homepage -Get Involved -Products -Projects -Publications -Future work More changes are coming to the current version of the website. 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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

News TREQ2020 – Capacity development and OpenQuake online training, year in review By: Jan 23, 2021 Share Facebook LinkedIn The TREQ project is assessing earthquake risk at community level in three metropolitan centers in Latin America: Quito, Ecuador; Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; and Cali, Colombia. In order to cope with the current pandemic, the GEM team shifted the capacity training and on-site workshops to online activities. Aiming to continue and strengthen the local participation in the project activities, 12 OpenQuake online training sessions (3 hours each) have been conducted for more than 200 people in several Latin American countries, with predominant participation from the three TREQ countries (Ecuador, Colombia, and Dominican Republic). The online workshops have increased the reach of the training sessions beyond its original scope. Free online working sessions are available through a dedicated website available in English and Spanish, https://www.training.openquake.org/ , allowing participants around the globe to engage in OpenQuake training activities for earthquake hazard and risk assessment. The online sessions are divided into four modules that cover the basic concepts: Introduction to OpenQuake and Open Source Tools for Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessment, Earthquake Scenarios, Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA), and Probabilistic Event-Based Risk Assessment. All the materials generated for the workshops have been incorporated into the training website. The project team has collected more than 200 responses with excellent and encouraging feedback, which helped the team to shape and improve the material and content of the training. Below is some of the feedback from the participants. “A great course! Very useful for us to start doing work using this great powerful software.” - Zivko Terzic, Melbourne, Australia I really liked the experience and I would like to take this workshop to my students of the Master's Degree in Earthquake Engineering so that we can do research projects." - Maribel Guzman, PUCMM, Dominican Republic "Delighted with the information presented and the material is excellent, including the modeling software" - Hernán Suárez, Risk Management Unit - Municipality of Quito, Ecuador "Congratulations on the development of the tool and your training! Very very interesting and useful." - Srahyrlandy Rocio Díaz, Risk management secretariat, Cali, Colombia "Excellent explanations. Excellent materials and Excellent speakers" - Jonatan Arreola, CENAPRED, Mexico Upcoming OpenQuake online training workshops are scheduled for February and March, 2021 . For more details, visit https://www.training.openquake.org/register . Next steps Expansion to other regions In 2020, the activities focused in Latin America, giving special emphasis to materials and sessions in Spanish. But in 2021, the TREQ project team is keen on expanding and improving the training activities to other regions, by providing materials in English and promoting the online training in Asia and Africa. Training the trainers Within the context of TREQ, five professors of civil engineering - Ana Beatriz Acevedo (EAFIT, Colombia), José Carlos Gil (UMG, Guatemala), Mario González ( UABC, Mexico), Manuel Alfredo López (UES, El Salvador) and Rolando Castillo (UCR, Costa Rica) - are preparing an academic course on seismic hazard and risk assessment. The course is being structured to be taught to undergraduate and master students over the course of an academic semester (15 to 16 weeks) using the training material from TREQ, including the manual for the development of seismic hazard and risk models, video tutorials and evaluation exercises on fundamentals of seismic risk and the use of OpenQuake. The training materials are already being used at EAFIT and will be presented for approval in the other universities in 2021. No images found. GALLERY 1/7 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

OpenQuake Engine certified user page This is to certify that Alexander Koelzer has successfully completed the requirements to become a Certified OpenQuake Engine User for Scenario Assessment demonstrating the required knowledge and skills as assessed by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation. GEM Foundation Secretary General Helen Crowley (signed) Date of Completion: Valid until: September 12, 2025 September 11, 2028

News GEM and NTU-ICRM renew partnership to further work on seismic risk in China and the ASEAN region By: Jun 3, 2021 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM and Singapore Nanyang Technological University – Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management (NTU-ICRM) have renewed its partnership to further work on seismic risk in China and the ASEAN region. “The NTU-ICRM is a strategic partner for GEM - providing us an opportunity to engage at depth in earthquake hazard and risk assessment with our ASEAN stakeholders, using OpenQuake and related tools as the platform for knowledge transfer and model building. Our continued partnership can facilitate and accelerate the understanding of seismic risk at urban, national, regional and global levels.” - John Schneider, GEM Secretary General. The collaboration leverages GEM expertise and the OpenQuake platform (software, models and databases) to assist ICRM in its risk assessment activities in Southeast Asia. Previous work focused on the Natural Catastrophe Data Analytics Exchange (NatCatDAX) project, as well as the ASEAN Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (ADRFI) program. Under NatCatDAX, exposure maps were developed for three countries (Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand), with detailed, building-level exposure datasets for their respective capital cities Jakarta, Manila and Bangkok. GEM’s role in this work has been to: - Improve modelling capabilities for Nat Cat risks in SE Asia covering exposure and loss; - facilitate better understanding of Nat Cat risks faced by ASEAN member states; and - nurture ASEAN local expertise in the Nat Cat risk domain. Joint workshops for East and Southeast Asian countries were conducted in Pavia, Italy, June 2019; Guangzhou, China, September 2019; Singapore, October 2019; and Hanoi, Vietnam, February 2020. The new program will focus on multi-hazard risk assessment of the 10 ASEAN member states, addressing earthquake, flood, and typhoon hazards, and developing ex-ante risk financing solutions. The ICRM was launched in 2010 with the vision to become Asia’s leading research institute in catastrophe risk management and to help those at risk worldwide in general and Asia in particular. The ICRM is the first multi-disciplinary risk management research institute of its kind in Asia and plays a lead role in NTU's integrative research efforts and its strategic vision of Sustainable Earth. Professor Pan Tso-Chen is the ICRM founding Executive Director. “Our partnership with GEM has provided us a robust platform to connect with government agencies, academia and industry players from around the world with the aim of providing risk financing and risk reduction options as part of a comprehensive risk management strategy for the Southeast Asian region. We are looking forward to continuing our collaboration in the years ahead in order to mitigate catastrophic risk impacts on businesses and of the society as a whole.” Professor Pan Tso-Chien, NTU-ICRM. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Country model to assess potential financial losses to commercial, industrial and residential buildings due to earthquakes Project Name Products Colombia Financial Loss Model Country model to assess potential financial losses to commercial, industrial and residential buildings due to earthquakes Share Facebook LinkedIn Description The GEM Colombia model is based upon GEM’s regional model for South America first developed from 2013 to 2015 within the South America Risk Assessment (SARA) project funded by the Swiss Re Foundation and updated in 2018. The development process involved dozens of local scientists and engineers from earthquake-prone countries in South America, resulting in an open product for analyzing ground-up loss from ground shaking for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. This model has been further improved with local information, such as local construction practices, replacement costs and level of enforcement of the seismic regulations. Further technical information can be found in the documentation. GEM extensively collaborated with its private and public partners to test and validate the model against industry standards in order to produce a new model that represents GEM’s view of risk. The model is available in Oasis and Touchstone formats, as well as through the NASDAQ platform. How to cite this work N.A. Available Versions The latest version (v2021) created by GEM can be requested by clicking on the "License Request", where a specific license will be provided, depending on the use case. The model is also available through NASDAQ and Verisk by clicking on the links in the right panel. License information Currently, the model is only available under a restricted license that has to be tailored for each specific use case. 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News GEM releases a new toolkit, an open‑source platform for vulnerability analysis By: Aug 30, 2021 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM recently released a new toolkit for vulnerability analysis, an open‑source platform compatible with commonly used earthquake engineering software such as OpenQuake and OpenSees. Implemented in the Python programming language, it is freely accessible through a public GitHub repository. The toolkit which comes with a graphical user interface (GUI), is divided into seven modules designed to guide users through the different stages of analytical vulnerability modelling from the selection of ground motion records to the validation and verification of the models. A unique feature of the toolkit is the integration in a single environment of all phases of seismic vulnerability assessment, including critical issues in vulnerability modelling related with the propagation of sources of uncertainty, verification of the resulting functions through risk metrics, and assessment of the performance of the chosen intensity measures in terms of sufficiency and efficiency. Vulnerability functions describe the expected loss for a given ground shaking intensity level and are an essential component in probabilistic seismic risk assessment. However, these functions are usually developed using scripts created by the authors, which in the vast majority of the cases are not released along with the associated fragility and vulnerability functions. This lack of transparency can prevent users from fully comprehending the modelling options and assumptions involved in the development of the models, which could be fundamental in understanding the range of applicability of the results. Luis Martins, GEM’s principal author and developer of the toolkit said that “It is thus important to improve the transparency in vulnerability modelling, through the employment of open-source tools whose methodologies and assumptions can be reviewed, and even adapted, by the users.” “The toolkit and are intended to provide earthquake engineers with a comprehensive platform to develop vulnerability models, while allowing a wide flexibility in terms of seismic demand, structural capacity, damage criteria and damage-to-loss conversion,” Luis added. The paper provides a description of the capabilities of both the source code and the GUI. The complete toolkit, including source code and GUI, is currently hosted publicly at: No images found. GALLERY 1/0 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Back to Bangladesh Outcomes Bangladesh Infrastructure Exposure In addition to residential, industrial, and commercial structures that were previously covered by GEM’s exposure models at the zila level (which have been updated to the upazila level during this project), we have also developed exposure models for the healthcare and educational facilities at the country, including all hospitals and clinics, and all schools, colleges, and universities. Map | Profile

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News GEM launches collaboration with innovative disaster resilience company, One Concern, to advance understanding of seismic risks By: Mar 17, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM recently finalized an agreement to collaborate with One Concern ( ), a resilience as a service company, that combines disaster science and machine learning to help business and government leaders measure and mitigate risks. The focus of the joint initiative is to enhance One Concern’s ability to help the public sector, as well as commercial and insurance entities identify, quantify, and manage earthquake risk exposure. As part of the collaboration, GEM will provide One Concern with access to its OpenQuake software and its seismic hazard and vulnerability models for Japan, allowing the company to refine its earthquake scenario impact assessments, as well as its modeling of cascading failures to infrastructure systems in the country. Dr. Abhineet Gupta, Director of Research at One Concern, explained, “Our technology is helping to improve the understanding of disaster impacts on the built and the natural environments globally. Our work with GEM will add value to the AI-based multi-hazard platform that we’ve developed for earthquakes and floods, so that communities can better prepare for and respond to these disasters.” One Concern is joining GEM as an Advisor for three years and will work closely with GEM Hazard, Risk and IT teams toward improving GEM models and risk analysis tools. On collaborating with One Concern, John Schneider, Secretary General of GEM, added, “We’re excited to work with One Concern to contribute to developing detailed earthquake impact scenarios using One Concern’s artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, which in turn will advance our understanding of and preparation for earthquake impacts at global scale.” No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS