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How to integrate societal factors with risk estimation?

Source(s): Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)
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Not only is it vital to evaluate and benchmark the conditions that lead to adverse earthquake impacts and loss, it is equally important to measure the capacity of populations to respond to damaging events and to provide a set of metrics for priority setting and decision-making, says GEM.

To allow for a holistic approach to seismic risk assessment and to integrate societal factors with risk estimation, GEM has released the Integrated Risk Modelling Toolkit, a QGIS plugin compatible with the OpenQuake platform.

For web-based mapping and data exploration of completed and shared integrated risk assessments, GEM has also recently developed the Integrated Risk Viewer, a tool now directly accessible from the OpenQuake Platform where users can explore and interact with the models over the web without having to install or operate the QGIS plugin.

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