OpenQuake is being developed by GEM, the Global Earthquake Model, a global collaborative effort to develop tools and resources for stakeholders worldwide to assess and understand earthquake risk, as a basis to increase resilience to these often devastating events.
OpenQuake refers to all tools, apps and IT-infrastructure being developed to support GEM’s stakeholders in assessing risk. The core of OpenQuake is the web-based risk assessment platform, which will offer an integrated environment for modeling, viewing, exploring, and managing earthquake risk. But there is more.. a variety of tools and even databases can be used independently, so users can use GEM’s resources and tols in a flexible way, adjusted to their needs.
We have moved all information, request-forms for the online OATS service, downloads and news to our new website.
beta.globalquakemodel.org features all background information on GEM on the one hand, and on OpenQuake and its various components on the other. Check it out!
You can still access old blog posts.
In past centuries, southern Europe was devastated by many destructive earthquakes. Because of intense construction as a results of the increase in urban population during the last two decades, the consequential effects of seismic hazard are even more disastrous. It is therefore, of great importance to assess the seismic hazard properly.
Dear Mustafa, thanks for your message. Have you heard about the European project SHARE for hazard harmonization? They work closely with GEM to characterize hazard and actually use the OpenQuake Engine for their calculations! See http://www.share-eu.org