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News USGS has joined the TREQ initiative for urban earthquake scenarios By: Feb 19, 2021 Share Facebook LinkedIn The USGS has recently joined the GEM TREQ project: Training and Communication for Earthquake Risk Assessment to undertake research that aims to deliver a suite of USGS’s National Earthquake Information Center’s (NEIC) real-time shaking, impact, and aftershock forecast products for the TREQ earthquake scenarios. In addition, the collaboration also aims to compare USGS PAGER and GEM loss model estimates for earthquake scenarios in the three identified urban centers under the TREQ project: Quito (Ecuador), Cali (Colombia), and Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic). This exploratory analysis will help in understanding and scoping of future research and development needs for the PAGER team and could serve as the foundation for the next phase of the PAGER research project. The expected outputs from the research and development project are: (i) ShakeMaps for real time assessment, impact, and aftershock forecast products for the earthquake scenarios considered under the GEM TREQ project for the three urban centers for operational response planning; (ii) comparisons between USGS PAGER and GEM loss estimates for the TREQ scenario earthquakes using OpenQuake. The activities are also geared at further fostering continued research collaboration between the USGS PAGER team and the GEM Foundation on science and engineering, and will leverage GEM's effort in collecting data for scenario development to explore the development of more detailed PAGER products. It is expected that there will be synergy built in from the beginning in terms of GEM’s OpenQuake engine and PAGER modeling results since the damage and impact estimates from each scenario will be generated based on the same underlying data and vulnerability/fragility models. This will also give an opportunity for GEM’s TREQ modelling outputs using OpenQuake engine to be validated by events produced in a ‘real operational’ environment from using the USGS PAGER methodologies. The availability of NEIC’s real-time products will enable decision makers (e.g., emergency responders from city/county/metropolitan jurisdiction) to aim for operational readiness similar to what is being practiced in the U.S. under FEMA led ‘National Level Exercises (NLEs)’ to improve operational response capacity. No images found. GALLERY 1/2 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News OpenQuake Engine 10 Year Anniversary Webinar: collaboration, open source approach - keys to OQ engine's success By: Nov 25, 2020 Share Facebook LinkedIn Almost 250 attendees participated in the webinar held on October 22nd to celebrate a decade of the OpenQuake Engine. Most of the attendees came from the academic and private sectors who have used the OpenQuake engine mainly for hazard and risk analysis, and academic research. The presentations were divided into two sections. The hazard part focused on the OQ history, future outlook and examples of how the OQ engine was used for site-specific, national and regional hazard assessment; and seismic hazard analysis for engineering-based insurance applications. The risk part focused on the use of the OQ engine for risk analysis as well as future outlook, and examples of how the OQ engine was used in Canada to build their national risk model; and how it was used for urban risk assessment in Colombia. The panelists composed of Laurentiu Danciu of ETH Zurich, Yufang Rong of FM Global, Murray Journeay of NRCan and Ana Beatriz Acevedo of EATFIT University Colombia as well as John Schneider, Marco Pagani and Vitor Silva of GEM, all agree that the open source approach in the development of the OQ engine over the past decade has not just led to a cutting-edge software for seismic hazard and risk analysis, but more importantly, to a community of dedicated scientists, researchers, modelers and risk professionals who share the same aspiration: to , and to reduce seismic risk in order to improve humanity’s resilience to disaster. If you missed the webinar, visit the event page here: to watch the video and to download the presentations. To read the press release, visit . GEM is currently conducting an OpenQuake Engine user survey to help us improve the engine in future releases. If you are currently using the OQ engine or have used it in the past, please take the survey . No images found. GALLERY 1/7 Gallery VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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News GEM visits Malaysia and Indonesia stakeholders By: Jun 27, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM Secretary General, John Schneider visited stakeholders in Malaysia and Indonesia during the week of May 7 to 11 to strengthen GEM’s collaboration with Southeast Asian nations. John met and discussed potential partnerships with key representatives of national governments, as well as representatives of the academic and private sectors. TNB Malaysia considering OpenQuake for earthquake hazard and risk assessmentOn May 7th, John was invited by the research arm of the Malaysian national energy company, TNB, to visit their campus in Kuala Lumpur and to give a presentation on GEM. TNB is in the process of assessing the earthquake hazard and risk of their critical energy infrastructure for electric power generation and transmission and is interested in partnering with GEM and learning to use OpenQuake to further develop their capacity for hazard and risk assessment. The project is led by Prof. Azlan Adnan of the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM), who also led a delegation and coordinated a visit to GEM’s headquarters in Pavia, Italy recently. Malaysia has seen a significant increase in earthquake activity since the 2004 M 9.3 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. As a result, they have been rapidly developing the science and engineering capability to address this new hazard, and in 2017 the government put in place their first building code provisions for earthquake safety. The GEM presentation was attended by members of the project team at TNB, the University of Technology, Malaysia, as well as by representatives of the national meteorological agency (also responsible for earthquake monitoring) and the national disaster management agency. TNB is keen to develop a public-private partnership to form a national Malaysian sponsorship of GEM and will work with GEM to develop a proposal. Indonesia keen to join GEM and the USAID-supported CRAVE Project. On May 11th, John visited the Department of Public Works (PUSKIM) of Indonesia research facility in Bandung, 300 km west of Jakarta on the island of Java. PUSKIM has the lead responsibility for the development of the latest national earthquake hazard model and map of Indonesia, which was published in September 2017. The work was accomplished through the National Committee for Seismic Hazard, a coordination of several academic and technical organizations, and chaired by Prof. Mahsyur Irsyam of the Institute of Technology, Bandung (ITB). He also served as one of the review panel members for GEM’s Global Earthquake Hazard and Risk Model due for release on 5th December this year. The new national hazard model was developed using a combination of Open Quake and the PSHA code developed by the USGS. John met with Prof Irsyam and with Pak Lufti Faisal, Head of Engineering Department, and Pak Arief Subaruddin, Director of Research Institute for Housing and Human Settlement. Public Works has agreed to provide the national hazard model to the GEM global model. They are also keen to become a sponsor of GEM, and will work with GEM to develop a proposal to the Ministry. Also on May 11th, John visited the National Center for Volcanology and Geohazards Mitigation (CVGHM) in Bandung. The purpose was to discuss GEM’s invitation to CVGHM to be a participant in the CRAVE Project, funded by USAID for a pilot project on volcano risk assessment. He met with Devi Syahbana, Team Leader for Volcano Hazard Mitigation in Eastern Indonesia who expressed interest to work with GEM incoordination with the national disaster management agency, BNBP. John also met with several members of the earthquake hazard modeling team, also based at CVGHM: Athanasius Cipta and Amalfi Omang who are OpenQuake users, and did much of the model analysis for the national earthquake hazard map. Both of them did masters degrees at the Australian National University under the supervision of Prof. Phil Cummins, the Geoscience Australia representative to the GEM Governing Board. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Future directions for PSHA at local, national and transnational scales workshop By: Jul 2, 2018 Share Facebook LinkedIn More than 160 leading experts on Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) from around the globe participated in the PSHA Workshop held at Lenzburg, Switzerland from September 5th-7th, featuring presentations and posters on practical aspects and currently developing issues on the PSHA process. Discussions revolved around time-dependent analysis, source model validation, and site-specific PSHA within the framework of new engineering requirements and communication of hazard results to both scientific and non-scientific communities. The workshop also provided the chance for the PSHA community to interact and share information about ongoing and future research projects, which were discussed in specific thematic meetings. Marco Pagani, Hazard Coordinator, and Valerio Poggi, Senior Hazard Scientist, attended the meeting on behalf of GEM. Marco, a keynote speaker, also presented ‘Exploring GEM’s Global Mosaic of Hazard Models: Hints for Regional Hazard Modelling’ as an input to this year’s theme: PSHA - Future directions for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment at local, national and transnational scales. The participants received the presentation with much interest sparking a passionate scientific debate on the use and treatment of epistemic uncertainty in regional models, which appears to still be a controversial issue within the community. Though the use and treatment of epistemic uncertainty in regional models was a hotly discussed topic, GEM’s OpenQuake engine received overwhelming positive feedback from the participants. Many of the studies presented by the keynote speakers and posters used the OpenQuake engine. No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News Ten risk profiles for countries in Central Asia and nearby parts of Transcaucasia and South Asia now available By: Dec 6, 2022 Share Facebook LinkedIn The risk profiles were released as part of the outputs of the project “Developing a Disaster Risk Transfer Facility in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Region” supported by the Asian Development Bank. GEM, a member of the consortium of organizations that implemented the project from 2020-2022 provided the exposure and seismic vulnerability data as contributions to the development of disaster risk assessments and modeling in all Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Region (CAREC) countries. The consortium was led by Willis Towers Watson. CAREC member countries face growing levels of disaster risk without sufficient financial protection. The aim of the project was to establish a regional disaster risk transfer facility to promote regional cooperation, help narrow the protection gap and increase the financing available including insurance for quick response to disaster events. GEM, along with JBA Risk also contributed earthquake and flood risk data respectively to the Narrowing the Disaster Risk Protection Gap in Central Asia publication, which explores and examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in CAREC member states to strengthen disaster risk finance and informs the design of a risk transfer facility. The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation or CAREC Program is a partnership of 11 countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, People's Republic of China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), supported by six multilateral institutions, working together to promote development through cooperation, leading to accelerated growth and poverty reduction. The Country Risk Profiles can be downloaded from the CAREC website: https://www.carecprogram.org/?page_id=21&paged=1&title=country%20risk%20profile . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 Gallery 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