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The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) is a unique private-public alliance with the mission of producing software and tools that help to reduce earthquake risk worldwide. In order to collect data to guide the design and development of software and its underlying basis, GEM is assessing user needs in a web-based survey requiring less than 10 minutes. The survey can be found at www.globalquakemodel.org and is available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and Japanese. GEM invites all to participate by clicking on the red banner in the upper right corner. Results of the survey will be available at the GEM website upon completion.
Launched earlier this year with backing from academia, governments, and industry, the GEM initiative brings together worldwide expertise on all aspects of earthquake risk. It has constructed the first version of a truly global, open-source model for seismic risk assessment on a national and regional scale that will be finished by 2013. Aiming to be the uniform, independent standard to calculate and communicate earthquake risk worldwide with broad scientific participation, GEM will be the critical instrument in providing accurate and transparent risk information to support mitigating decisions and actions. By providing the information in a manner that is understandable to all users, GEM aims to raise awareness, lead to adoption and enforcement of building codes, promote seismic mitigation, and stimulate insurance use. |
