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OpenQuake is an open-source, seismic risk assessment suite by the Global Earthquake Model Foundation.
The presentation will be split in two parts:
The first talk will briefly describe the individual software components and their status, and will also present the development philosophy used, discuss some aspects of data licensing, content governance and technological challenges encountered.
The OpenQuake-Engine aims at providing a framework for seismic hazard and risk assessment. The talk will describe the main scientific ideas and algorithms implemented by the software. Examples from national, regional and global scale analysis will be presented and discussed. Current challenges and future development directions will be outlined.
Paul Henshaw is the IT and Development Coordinator for the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. Paul graduated from the University of Kent with a BSc in Computer Science and eight years experience of leading development teams and has been writing software for over twenty years. Paul has been involved in open-source software development since 1997.
Damiano Monelli earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics from ETH Zurich in 2009, working in the field of earthquake seismology. During his Ph.D he worked on a probabilistic methodology for the estimation of earthquake source parameters through inversion of seismic and geodetic data. Since 2009 he has been involved in the GEM initiative, focusing mostly on numerical implementation of seismic hazard models for different regions of the world. He is currently involved in the design of the scientific functionalities of the OpenQuake-Engine.
Organised by: Bob Jones and Miguel Angel Marquina
Computing Seminars /IT Department