Opportunity: GEM-EGU Summer School on GeoHazards Risk 2024
09 April 2024
The GEM-EGU Summer School offers comprehensive training on geohazards risk assessment. Led by international experts, participants will learn to evaluate damages, economic losses, and casualties due to earthquake ground shaking, and other triggered effects such as liquefaction, landslides, and tsunamis using open models and tools.
The main objectives of this training are:
Familiarize with open-source tools for hazard and risk analysis
Understand the different components required to perform hazard and risk analysis
Produce the most important results
Learn how to present complex risk results to different stakeholders
For more information about the Summer School, please refer to the attachment.
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