global earthquake model: improving knoWledge of earthquake risk WorldWideJohn Schneider - GEM Foundation, Pavia, Italy.

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gem (the global earthquake model) In 2009, the GEM Foundation was incorporated as a public-private partnership to facilitate a global collaborative effort named GEM (Global Earthquake Model) to develop open tools and resources for advanced earthquake risk assessment worldwide. GEM’s four guiding principles are: collaborative, open, credible and public good. GEM is working with hundreds of scientists and engineers to develop and implement products, provide training, and improve local capacity for risk assessment. In January 2015, GEM launched OpenQuake, an open-source computational platform for earthquake hazard and risk analysis worldwide.

Figure 1. GEM partners and secretariat staff brainstorming at GEM headquarters in Pavia, Italy.

Figure 3. Sample of projects where GEM is collaborating with organisations in the Southeast Asian region.

GEM achieves this by, communicating and facilitating the use of earthquake hazard and risk assessment tools and information worldwide to support the implementation of the Sendai Framework.

With emphasis on Priority 1 (Understanding Risk) of the Sendai Framework GEM is committed to:

•developing and applying science and technology to inform DRR;

•collaboratively developing open-source tools and open-access data, methods and risk information that are transparent, reproducible and credible ;

•working collaboratively through a public-private partnership at global to local scales to establish guidelines and standards and to develop capacity for understanding and reducing risks; and

•leveraging common ground across institutions to create a framework for developing, sharing and disseminating risk information

GEM’s core technical achievement to date is the development of OpenQuake, a global earthquake risk computational platform *2, and 8 global databases and guidelines for the assessment of earthquake hazard and risk. Since its launch in January 2015, OpenQuake has about 1000 registered users.

Databases include the ISC-GEM global seismicity catalogue, historical earthquakes, geodetic strain, exposure, and earthquake consequences; guidelines include recommendations for earthquake ground motion equations and building vulnerability models

Other achievements include:

•fostering relations and collaborations with programmes and projects on hazard and risk assessment in over 10 regions of the world.

•conducting dozens of workshops and training hundreds of experts globally, putting the knowledge and tools in the hands of local experts.

•collaboratively applying tools and resources in many different ways, ranging from revisions of national hazard models (for input to building codes), to assessment of community resilience at local levels. *3

GEM’s Governing Board is currently made up of about 40 partners and/or sponsors across the private and public sectors across the globe: *1

•Private partners are mainly from the insurance/risk financing sector

•Public partners are national governments or agencies responsible for earthquake hazard/risk assessment.

•Associate partners are international organisations such as professional societies, the UN, World Bank, and others with global interests in understanding and/or reducing earthquake and other natural hazard risk.

•Funding and implementing partners are organizations that support specific projects that are in line with GEM’s mission and priorities to develop and disseminate earthquake risk information.

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NepalLocal Coordinators: NSET, authorities of

Kathmandu Valley, Tribhuvan UniversityResilience Performance Scorecard

Funded by: USAID, SAIIn collaboration with: CEDIM, SAI

NepalEnhancement of urban disaster resilience

through activities of local participatory platformFunded by: Ministry of Science and Education, Japan

In collaboration with: University of Kyoto, UNU, UN-HABITAT, UNISDR, UNESCO, NIED, OYO

MyanmarLocal Coordinators: Municipality of Yangon, Yangon

Institute of Technology, Myanmar Engineering SocietyEnhancement of urban disaster resilience through

activities of local participatory platformFunded by: Ministry of Science and Education, Japan

In collaboration with: University of Kyoto, UNU, UN-HABITAT, UNISDR, UNESCO, NIED, OYO

AustraliaLocal Coordinator: GA

Use of OpenQuake for national hazard assessment

Funded by: Australian Government

JapanLocal Coordinator: NIEDUse of OpenQuake for national hazard assessmentFunded by: Japan Government

TaiwanLocal Coordinator: TEMUse of OpenQuake for national hazard assessmentFunded by: Taiwan Government

Papua New GuineaLocal Coordinator: PNG’s Department of Mineral Policy and Geohazards ManagementUse of OpenQuake for national hazard assessmentFunded by: Australian AidIn collaboration with: GA

New ZealandLocal Coordinator: GNSUse of OpenQuake for the national hazard assessment

Vulnerability and exposure data converted in OQ formats for national risk assessmentFunded by: NZ Government

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*1 - Keller, N. and Schneider, J. (2015): Working together to assess risk from global to local: lessons from the Global Earthquake Model. In: Planet@Risk, 3(2): 255-259, Davos: Global Risk Forum GRF Davos. *2 - Silva, V., H. Crowley, M. Pagani, D. Monelli, and R. Pinho (2014). Development of the OpenQuake engine, the Global Earthquake Model’s open-source software for seismic risk assessment. Natural Hazards, Vol 72, Issue 3, pp 1409-1427. *3 - For a comprehensive summary of GEM publications and technical reports, see http://www.globalquakemodel.org/resources/publications/

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