MISSION The GEM Foundation is a non-profit, public-private partnership that drives a global collaborative effort to develop scientific and high-quality resources for transparent assessment of earthquake risk and to facilitate their application for risk management around the globe. Assisted by an initiative of the OECD's Global Science Forum, GEM was formed in 2009 as a non-profit foundation in Pavia, Italy, funded through a public-private sponsorship with the vision to create a world that is resilient to earthquakes and other natural hazards. Through global partnerships, GEM’s mission is to: continue to be the world’s official, most complete source of earthquake risk resources and a globally accepted standard for risk assessment; ensure that GEM products find application in catastrophe risk management worldwide; become a global leader in integrated, multi-hazard risk assessment and resilience planning. Share Facebook LinkedIn GEM builds capacity to assess and manage risk through open, transparent and collaborative seismic risk assessment at local, national, regional and global scales. Using state-of-the-art tools, GEM is committed to share and advocate open, reliable earthquake risk information to support sound disaster risk-reduction planning at various levels. Openness Open data, open software, transparent processes, freely accessible to the public Collaboration Public-private partnership, inclusiveness, working together across geographies and disciplines Credibility Commitment to scientific credibility, trusted by local and global partners and peers Public Good Motivated by the welfare of the public, works to serve the public good Core Values

Publications Colombia Seismic Model Share Facebook LinkedIn Download 2020 | Report Colombia occupies a territory in which the forces of nature and their geological expression produce events that can be dangerous for the population. This environment is a challenge that demands the country (and us, as citizens) the best efforts to understand the dynamics of the earth, so that we can design our cities and infrastructure in the best possible way, using the available knowledge.

News Join the GEM Webinar: Become a Public Governor Sponsor By: Apr 5, 2025 Mar 10, 2025 Share Facebook LinkedIn The GEM Foundation invites public institutions to join its Governing Board as Public Governors under its new scheme — a unique opportunity to shape the future of global earthquake risk reduction. The scheme features three sponsorship tiers, each providing full involvement in strategic initiatives and project support. While two tiers involve financial contributions, the third offers a merit-based pathway through the new Partnership Opportunity Application, with the objective of engaging with more countries, especially those in the Global South. This structure strengthens collaboration between GEM and leading public organisations by broadening participation, promoting shared expertise, open-access science, innovative risk modeling, and data-driven decision-making. To share more details on the sponsorship tiers, including the competitive merit-based pathway, GEM will host a webinar on April 10th, 2025. The event will cover the scheme's structure, selection criteria, and the benefits of becoming a Public Governor. Don’t miss this chance to learn how your institution can play a key role in advancing earthquake risk reduction efforts. Register for the webinar: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/gemevents/public-sponsor-partnership-gem-2025-call Application deadline (merit-based tier): 24 May 2025 Download the instructions and Application template: https://www.globalquakemodel.org/get-involved?tab=partnership-opportunity No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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

News GEM Governing Board Meeting June 2023 By: Jun 30, 2023 Share Facebook LinkedIn The GEM Governing Board meeting was held from June 15-16 in Bergamo, Italy. The meeting was highlighted by the confirmation of Helen Crowley as GEM Secretary General starting August 1st, replacing John Schneider. John who has held the Secretary General position since February 2016 will move to an advisory role. The June meeting included a meeting of the new GEM Advisory Board: below from left: Laurie Johnson (Laurie Johnson Consulting - expert in post-disaster recovery), Shanna McClain (NASA, Disasters Program Manager) and Sangeeta Singh (Professor of Urban Planning and Deputy Director of Centre for Disaster Studies Tribhuvan University - Institute of Engineering, Nepal). The Advisory Board will provide advice on topics such as earthquake model validation, exposure model development and urban risk assessment and planning. Key discussions and recommendations included: There is a wide demand for development of GEM products and services leveraging the global hazard and risk models. The Secretariat is scoping the development costs and working with sponsors and others to define user requirements and funding opportunities. Delivery of GEM data and hazard/risk modelling results through an API is gaining interest. GEM is currently testing an API for global hazard curves with several prospective clients. As identified in GEM’s strategic plan, the effects of secondary hazards (especially tsunami, landslide and liquefaction) are an important to a complete understanding of earthquake risk. While some progress has been made, there is work to be done to determine how to capture the risk effectively on a global scale. The February earthquakes in Turkey raised considerable interest in the potential for GEM to provide impact estimates rapidly to assist disaster relief operations. GEM is now working with the USGS, the European ARISTOTLE project and other organisations to expand its current capability. Sponsors expressed interest in working with GEM on a number of projects aimed at improving hazard and risk assessment capabilities. The priorities for this work and the extent to which such developments would require additional funding is to be determined. John Schneider presented reflections of his 7-½ years of leading the GEM Secretariat, which included the release of the first global earthquake hazard and risk maps (2018) and culminated in the second major release in June 2023. More on GEM accomplishments in this period are summarised in John’s Story at [ https://www.globalquakemodel.org/gemstories/bridging-science-and-Society%3A-reflections-of-a-geophysicist's-impact-on-global-seismic-understanding ] No images found. GALLERY DSC04271.JPG DSC04260.JPG DSC04195.JPG DSC04271.JPG 1/15 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

Publications GEM Strategic Plan and Roadmap to 2030 Share Facebook LinkedIn Download 2022 | Brochure GEM was founded in 2009 with the purpose of improving the global knowledge of earthquake risk and contributing to the reduction of risk worldwide. In more than a decade, GEM has become widely known for its global effort to improve the state of practice of earthquake hazard and risk assessment and for its contribution to improving the state of knowledge of earthquake risk. Overview

News GEM at UR2024: Pioneering Global Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment By: May 27, 2024 Share Facebook LinkedIn Photo credit: UR24 The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation is set to make an impact at the upcoming Understanding Risk Global Forum 2024 (UR24) in Himeji, Japan. As a leader in global seismic hazard and risk assessment, GEM will not only participate but also co-organise technical sessions, underlining the importance of collaborative efforts in enhancing global resilience against geohazards. Highlighting the significance of this forum for GEM, Helen Crowley , GEM Secretary General, remarked, "UR24 provides a unique platform for us to share our latest insights on the modelling of global seismic hazard and risk, and to make those important personal connections with a global community of experts working on risk assessment and mitigation." John Schneider , GEM Senior Advisor, further emphasised this commitment by stating, "By co-organising sessions focused on geohazard risk assessment and building a global community, we aim to drive significant advancements in understanding and mitigating natural hazard risks." GEM's active participation at UR24 includes a series of key sessions that reflect its dedication to strengthening global seismic hazard and risk assessment and building international cooperation. UR24: The GEM-led Sessions June 18, 2024: What About Geohazards? The State of Practice in Risk Assessment and Needs for Improvement at National to Sub-National Level Time: 12:30 - 13:30 Convenors: John Schneider, GEM Senior Advisor, and Malaika Ulmi, Nat. Hazards & Climate Change Geoscience Program Manager, Geological Survey of Canada. June 20, 2024: Building a Global Community for Hazard and Risk Assessment Time: 14:00 - 18:00 Convenors: John Schneider, Senior Advisor, GEM; Malaika Ulmi, Nat. Hazards & Climate Change Geoscience Program Manager, Geo Survey of Canada; Gill Jolly, Chief Science Advisor, MBIE, GNS Science, New Zealand. Key Participation Helen will be participating in several key sessions across June 18th and 19th: On June 18th, she'll join the "Symphony of Tradition and Innovation" panel discussion (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) convened by ImageCat, Inc. Later that morning, she'll be part of a panel of speakers at the "Richter Resilience: Advancing Seismic Protection Worldwide" plenary session (10:30 AM - 11:15 AM) convened by The World Bank. On June 19th, Helen will be featured as a speaker in the "Can ‘Seeing’ the Future Help us Change it? A Discussion on Future Directions for Disaster Scenarios" session (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) convened by Janise Rodgers, COO of GeoHazards International. Exhibition Booth Beyond these insightful presentations, attendees can also visit GEM at booth S7 to explore available open seismic hazard and risk resources and engage directly with GEM's earthquake experts, including Marco Pagani, Head of Seismic Hazards. Our team will be there to provide valuable insights into the tools and methodologies used by GEM which help drive global earthquake preparedness and resilience. For more information and to follow GEM's participation at UR24, visit our dedicated event page at https://www.globalquakemodel.org/gemevents/gem-ur2024-japan . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

News GEM and Beijing Normal University sign an agreement that will establish the International Joint Laboratory on Catastrophic Disaster Simulation and Systemic Risk Response By: Apr 11, 2023 Share Facebook LinkedIn On February 23rd, GEM and the School of National Safety and Emergency Management - Beijing Normal University, China signed an agreement that will establish the International Joint Laboratory on Catastrophic Disaster Simulation and Systemic Risk Response. The Joint Laboratory is also supported by the Social Systems for Disaster Risk Governance Laboratory, Disaster Prevention Research Institute - Kyoto University, Japan. The Joint Laboratory aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms, processes and impacts of systemic risk of a catastrophic disaster, establish an expert team focusing on global systemic risk of a catastrophic disaster, and promote the creation of the community of human destiny and common security. The agreement will run for five years (2023-2028). Collaborative research projects will focus on the multi-hazard coupling effect and extreme environment simulation, study the theory and methodology for quantitative assessment of catastrophe systemic risk, and study the safety and resilience of global infrastructure systems in response to extreme disasters. Over the course of five years, the partners will strengthen linkages through staff exchange, mutual visits, and student exchange and training. “GEM is thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with our partners - Beijing Normal University and Kyoto University on the International Joint Laboratory. This is an important research direction and one that can only move forward significantly through such collaborations.” – John Schneider, GEM Secretary General. “In recent years we have made rapid progress in systemic risk formation mechanism and its response, as well as emergency linkage and recovery. We believe that our partnership with GEM to establish the Joint Laboratory will help open the door to cooperate with high-level international universities and institutes working in the catastrophic disaster simulation and systemic risk response.” - Wang Ming, Dean of the School of National Safety and Emergency Management University, Beijing Normal University. For more information, contact GEM at info@globalquakemodel.org and Beijing Normal University at ns@bnu.edu.cn . No images found. GALLERY 1/0 VIDEO RELATED CONTENTS

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VISION TO 2030 Since 2009, GEM has led a global effort to improve the state of practice of earthquake hazard and risk assessment. GEM has developed open global databases, models and the OpenQuake software, and developed capacity for risk assessment worldwide. What role will GEM play as the risk landscape and associated demand evolve between now and 2030? Share Facebook LinkedIn Our Goal Integrated risk and resilience solutions With loss from natural catastrophic events projected to reach up to $2trn by 2030 (RMS, 2022) due to increasing global population, rapid urbanisation and extreme weather events, GEM’s strategic plan roadmap to 2030 aims to develop capabilities that serve the broader need for integrated risk assessment for resilience and sustainability due to globally increasing vulnerability and exposure of populations to natural hazards, including from climate change. DRIVING PRINCIPLES Credibility, Openness, Collaboration, Public Good Three core strategic objectives that are driving the next 5 years leading up to 2030 are as follows: Provide: continue to develop global standards for risk modelling for all earthquake-related hazards. GEM will maintain expertise and global leadership in earthquake hazard and risk modelling and its applications to disaster risk reduction, in particular, the continuous development and user support for GEM’s flagship programmes and products: the OpenQuake Engine and the global earthquake hazard and risk models. INITIATIVES Global improvement and harmonisation of seismic hazard and risk models Global time-dependent seismic hazard and risk models Global impact assessment due to (all) earthquake-triggered hazards Advancing Science in PSHA and PSRA Support: be a global partner to local, regional and global disaster risk reduction communities for earthquakes and other natural hazards. Driven by global drivers such as the Sendai Framework, Sustainable Development Goals, and Paris Climate Agreement, and guided by its core values, GEM will expand its organizational, technical and scientific relationships and diversify its risk products and services to engage with stakeholders in the broader disaster risk reduction community. INITIATIVES Multi-hazard risk assessment - software and services Hazard-agnostic global exposure Disaster preparedness, response and recovery - software and services Global partnerships with other hazards and climate change communities Strengthen: strengthen the capacity of developing countries and the Global South. GEM will invest in strengthening the capacity of developing countries and the Global South to assess their risk to earthquakes and other natural hazards through public partnerships, training and collaborative projects. INITIATIVES Improve national seismic hazard and risk modelling, assessment and communication around the world Strengthen public partnerships Education, training, capacity building HOW TO SUPPORT OUR WORK various ways to support our work GEM offers flexible mechanisms to enable potential partners to contribute to its ongoing and future work programs. Partners and collaborators can enter into sponsorships, project partnerships and service agreements, and can select the level of engagement based on their needs and requirements. GEM’s sponsorship structure and fees have been designed to incentivize the participation of public and private organizations. Get Involved Sponsorship Projects & Technical Cooperation Publications & Research Bespoke Products & Services STRATEGIC PLAN AND ROADMAP TO 2030 Download GEM’s overall objective to 2030 is to develop capabilities and to serve the broader need for integrated risk assessment for resilience and sustainability due to globally increasing vulnerability and exposure of populations to natural hazards, including from climate change. To get a complete view of our future programs, download our brochure.