The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation was established to create an independent, uniform, and openly accessible standard for calculating and communicating seismic risk worldwide and for ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden and LONDON, June 30, 2020-- Today Nasdaq announced that The Global Earthquake Model, a leading non-profit, public-private partnership for earthquake risk information, has become ...

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GEM's massive ambitions include a database of the fragility of every building on Earth, a global earthquake catalog for the past 1,000 years, and a map of every known active fault.

But in China, where seismic building codes are often flouted, the magnitude-8.0 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 killed more than 69,000 people. In 2010, an even smaller quake, a magnitude-7.0, killed ...

LONDON, 21 February 2023- Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, today announced the launch of a new probabilistic catastrophe model to quantify loss potential for earthquake risk ...

As International Day for Disaster Reduction nears, Rui Pinho, who leads the Global Earthquake Model, talks to SciDev.Net.

China, which makes disputed claims of ownership over Taiwan, thanked the global community for expressions of grief after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the island.

The model was developed by the National Supercomputing Center in Chengdu in cooperation with the Institute of Geophysics of the China Earthquake Administration and Tsinghua University, the Xinhua ...

The Global Earthquake Model should enable people to calculate local risks but critics say the hard bit will be communicating the outcome. Skip to content Bringing science & development together ...

M Pagani. et al./Global Earthquake Model The seismic-hazard map is the first major global effort of its kind since 1999, says Marco Pagani, a hazard coordinator at GEM who led the map’s development.

Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do, seismologists say. The greatest risk of dying during an earthquake comes from collapsing structures and flying debris. Thanks to Japan's stringent ...