In the first year of the Risk Masters course in Durham University’s Department of Geography and IHRR, students produced podcasts on a topic of their choice from new research in physical hazards to insurance, risk, terror and security. In this podcast Tom Killalea, a student on the Risk Masters course, introduces a unique project to exchange earthquake risk information worldwide, known as the ‘Global Earthquake Model.’ Projects like GEM could potentially have a large role to play in how countries prepare for earthquakes and their secondary hazards.
Links
Global Earthquake Model Website: http://www.globalquakemodel.org/
MSc/MA Programmes in Risk at Durham University: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ihrr/graduateprogramme/
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May 20, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Reducing economic vulnerability to disasters in developing countries « Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog
[...] and their associated vulnerability are certainly useful. Public-private partnerships such as the Global Earthquake Model potentially provide much needed information on large scale hazards that often occur across national [...]