GEM TOPIQS Newsletter October-November 2018

Dear partners,

First of all, we would like to thank UNISDR European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction for the Damir Čemerin Award in recognition of GEM’s leadership in supporting disaster risk reduction. Our heartfelt thanks go to all our partners and collaborators.

The GEM2018 event is almost here. Please join us via live streaming and social media on December 5th for the presentation of the global earthquake hazard and risk maps, and share our press release to your network.

We are also highlighting our meeting with US-based collaborators and new partnerships with Aon Impact Forecasting to develop a new earthquake model for Canada and Swiss Re (Institute and Group Underwriting Cat Perils) to improve earthquake risk models for better risk quantification. Welcome to the family!

We value your opinion so please send us your suggestions and feedback to help us improve our next issues. If you like the contents, please forward to your friends and colleagues.

Happy reading!

John Schneider
Secretary General, GEM Foundation

unisdr.org
Major award for GEM's work on earthquake risk
ROME, 23 November, 2018 - Earthquakes and tsunamis kill more people than any other natural hazard and an Italian-based initiative to reduce seismic risk was recognized last night with a major award at the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction. Read more

GEM featured on OASIS website

Oasis Loss Modelling Framework and GEM have been working closely for many years. OASIS and GEM approaches and offerings are complementary, which opens interesting possibilities such as open and transparent software and model development with support for multi-peril loss estimation and financial module...

GLOBAL EARTHQUAKE MODEL 2018

Join the GEM2018 Event Live!
The launch of the Global Earthquake Model will be live streamed on GEM’s website and YouTube channel. To check the schedule and other details, visit our live streaming page here. Since 2009, GEM has been developing collaborations around the world to assess earthquake hazard and risk. An overview of the event is available here.

GEM Press Release: Scientists to release new global earthquake risk map on December 5th

The GEM Foundation (Global Earthquake Model) will present the global earthquake hazard and risk maps on December 5th 2018 in Pavia, Italy aimed to enhance disaster risk reduction strategies worldwide... Read more

The challenges of building a global earthquake model

A sneak peek of GEM experts’ experiences in overcoming the challenges of building a global earthquake model - presented in short video interviews. More in-depth discussions about the challenges in the upcoming GEM2018 Launch Event on December 5th: How we built the map... Watch

GEM2018 Infographics

A quick overview of GEM Foundation and its efforts to build a global earthquake model. The infographics is available in video and interactive formats here...

PARTNERSHIPS

GEM and Aon to Collaborate on the Development of a New Earthquake Model for Canada

GEM and Aon’s Impact Forecasting catastrophe model development team have signed a partnership agreement to develop a new earthquake model for Canada based on global collaborative science and the latest publicly available data and information from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)...
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Swiss Re (Institute and Group Underwriting Cat Perils) and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) renew partnership to improve earthquake risk models for better risk quantification

Building from the success of Swiss Re Foundation and GEM’s collaboration in the South America Risk Assessment (SARA) project from 2013-2015, Swiss Re Institute and Swiss Re Group Underwriting (Cat Perils) and GEM have joined forces on a project to evaluate and improve GEM’s risk models for use by the insurance and reinsurance industry...

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

US-based engineering and planning institutions explore future projects with GEM

Laurie Johnson (GEM Science Board member and President-elect of EERI), and Steven Bingler (CEO of Concordia) met with GEM Secretary General John Schneider and Risk Team Leader Vitor Silva on October 19 at GEM Head Office in Pavia, Italy...