A true publicprivate partnership Governmental agencies and renowned private companies join forces to fund and govern the non-profit and independent GEM Foundation that drives the whole GEM effort. Together with prominent international organisations they guide the initiative, combining their knowledge, networks and the needs of their stakeholders.
Growing the partnership is the basis for growing GEM and we are keen to see more and more organisations adhere or renew their support for GEM.
Current participants in the GEM Foundation
Private participants
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
public participants
Associate participants Australia
Geoscience Australia
Chile
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Ecuador
Ministry of Housing & Urban Development
Germany
German Research Centre for Geosciences
Italy Civil Protection Department
Japan
New Zealand
Norway
Singapore
Switzerland
National Research Institute for Earth Science & Disaster Prevention
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
The Research Council of Norway
Nanyang Technological University
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
International Association of Earthquake Engineering
The Institution of Structural Engineers
United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
International Association of Seismology & Physics of the Interior Earth
The World Bank
California Seismic Safety Commission
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
TAIWAN Earthquake Model
Taiwan
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Taiwan Earthquake Model
Turkey Catastrophe Insurance Pool
Natural Environment Research Council
United States Agency for International Development
Venezuelan Foundation for Seismological Research
Advancing science Leveraging science for the benefit of society
Exciting science A few of the publications that are the fruit of GEM... 28˚45'
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”Often all the model ingredients look fine, but their combination makes no sense. Calibration is key” Alex Allman, Munich Re One of the reasons why it’s so important to support initiatives that bring together the scientific community, like the Powell Working Group. It consists of seismologists and geophysicists that are working on a wide range of topics relevant for development of PSHA input models such as statistical and general seismology, tectonics. The 41˚00' group provides a forum for discussion and for joint work on challenging and disputed problems related to seismicity occurrence, such as the maximum magnitude concept or the definition and characterisation of earthquake occurrence.
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Selection of Ground Motion 29˚00' Prediction Equations for the medium Global Model 106 104 Earthquake 105
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Stewart, J.P., Douglas, J., Javanbarg, M., Bozorgnia, Y., Abrahamson, N.A., Boore, D.M., Campbell, K.W., Delavaud, E., Erdik, M., Stafford, P.J. (2013) Earthquake Spectra (in press)
Spatial aspects of building and EUR population exposure data high 107and their implications for global earthquake exposure modeling
”We had a pretty remarkable and interesting experience entire day during our expert elicitation workshop. Needless to say that we had a wonderful group of people that we could bring in under one roof. Everybody was serious, motivated and quite vested both in the process as well as the problem itself” Kishor Jaiswal, USGS Another interesting example of bringing together the community to find commonalities, discuss on where things are different and come up with joint solutions happens the area of physical vulnerability. Strongly supported also by EERI, already 2 expert-elicitation workshops have been organized.
Development of the OpenQuake engine, the Global Earthquake Model’s opensource software for seismic risk assessment
Dell’Acqua, F., Gamba, P., Jaiswal, K. (2012)
Silva, V., Crowley, H., Pagani, M., Monelli, D., Pinho, R (2013)
Natural Hazards, June 2012
Natural Hazards, March 2013
DOI 10.1007/s11069-012-0241-2
DOI 10.1007/s11069-013-0618-x