An experimental program using a 6 degree-of-freedom earthquake simulator at the University at Buffalo was executed to generate data for supporting validation of numerical models for seismic ...

Despite its open-source software for quake risk being delayed, the Global Earthquake Model is winning more supporters.

AIR Worldwide Corporation has announced it is sponsoring the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). The GEM project is a five-year project led by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ...

Destruction from earthquakes continues to threaten poor and wealthy nations alike. The Global Earthquake Model is a potentially important step towards providing risk information on a worldwide ...

AIR Worldwide’s Earthquake Model for Canada – which the risk modelling firm calls a significant tool for compliance with Guideline B-9 – has been updated to provide insurers and other ...

A global project to predict the risk from earthquakes to different communities is edging closer to reality. The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) will calculate seismic risk based on the geological ...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s updated National Seismic Hazard Model estimates the likelihood of future earthquake shaking hazard to have increased throughout most of the country, ranging from almost no ...

Scientists lay a framework for a new approach to earthquake prediction. Testing of new forecasting model is in progress but results are not expected for approximately another two years.

A UK-based distributed computing project is revealing new scientific insights into earthquakes. Technologies developed under the Discovery Net project are enabling geophysicists to combine two ...

U.S. nuclear power companies will be directed to reassess their reactors' vulnerability to an elevated threat from earthquakes east of the Rockies, using new computer models and seismic data ...