The latest reports, requests and news from the various groups: click to read more....
Deliverable D1 report of the GEM Faulted Earth project - an inventory of existing active fault and fault source databases. This report was an important part of the early design phase of the GEM Faulted Earth global fault and fold database.
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From today you can refer to the electronic glossary for the GEM Basic Building Taxonomy. The glossary contains descriptions of all terms included in the taxonomy, plus illustrations in the form of photos and/or drawings. The entire glossary can be downloaded as a single document, and there is an online version containing description and graphic illustrations for each term. You are invited to provide comments and contribute photographs for the glossary terms.
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Updated version of the GEM Basic Building Taxonomy Version 1.0 released - GEM community is invited to provide feedback.
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The GEMECD project has now shared its Deliverable 2 report entitled “Guidelines for the collection of consequence data”. The GEMECD on-line database is currently being developed on the basis of these guidelines.
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GEM Faulted Earth co-hosted a special session at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting on active fault data as input for seismic hazard analysis. An update on progress of the GEM Faulted Earth to date was presented by Nicola Litchfield and is available here
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Hundreds of experts and professionals from around the globe are working collectively on state-of-the-art global earthquake risk assessment and get together in Nexus to discuss the work being carried out within the scope of GEM.
Upcoming meetings around the globe
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19AugJoint EMME-EMCA-SHARE-GEM Session at ESC2012 from Aug 19, 2012 09:00 AM to Aug 24, 2012 05:00 PM — Moscow, Russia,
- GEM, together with the European, Central-Asian and Middle-East Regional Programmes SHARE, EMCA and EMME, organise a symposium on PSHA and PSRA. Abstracts can be submitted until 31st of March..
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25SepGEM Special Sessions at 15WCEE, September 2012 from Sep 25, 2012 05:15 PM to Sep 27, 2012 07:15 PM — Lisbon, Portugal,
- Three GEM Special Sessions will be held during the late afternoon of September 25th, 26th and 27th. We hope that many of you present at the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Portugal will participate..
News & Announcements
- Upcoming Improvements in Nexus
- Some improvements will be introduced in Nexus this week, for the website to be of better use to you all. What will change..
- New Nexus group on Social Vulnerability & Resilience
- A project on Social Vulnerability and Resilience for GEM has recently taken off, in order to support GEM's mission of producing a holistic global earthquake risk model and tools to estimate the impact of earthquakes on economy and society.
- Nexus migrates to new server - Wednesday January 18th
- Please note that on January 18th the GEM Nexus platform will move to a new server, and you might have trouble reaching the site. Read more..
- Tell us...
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What do you think of GEM Nexus? How could we support the work that GEM collaborators carry out even better? Is it clear how currently implemented features work? Which features could further be of use? Submit your suggestions here.