Development of the OpenQuake engine, the Global Earthquake Model’s open-source software for seismic risk assessment

Vitor Silva (), Helen Crowley, Marco Pagani, Damiano Monelli and Rui Pinho

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2014, vol. 72, issue 3, 1409-1427

Abstract: The Global Earthquake Model aims to combine the main features of state-of-the-art science, global collaboration and buy-in, transparency and openness in an initiative to calculate and communicate earthquake risk worldwide. One of the first steps towards this objective has been the open-source development and release of software for seismic hazard and risk assessment called the OpenQuake engine. This software comprises a set of calculators capable of computing human or economic losses for a collection of assets, caused by a given scenario event, or by considering the probability of all possible events that might happen within a region within a certain time span. This paper provides an insight into the current status of the development of this tool and presents a comprehensive description of each calculator, with example results. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Seismic hazard; Seismic risk; Loss assessment; Open-source (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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