Common Contracts

Project Acronym: SHARE

November 6th, 2020

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  November 6th, 2020

This document describes the structure and the main characteristics of the Seismic Hazard Engine (SHE) primarily developed in cooperation by the hazard team of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM, www.globalearthquakemodel.org) initiative and, by members of the USGS hazard team. The SHARE team cooperated to the development of the engine by providing input models together with extensive insights and suggestions with specific regard to the European context as specified in the following part of this document. The SHE, created on top of OpenSHA (www.opensha.org) and fully integrated with it, accepts a set of standardized source typologies characterized by a time-independent occurrence model. Through the SHARE-GEM cooperation we ensure full compatibility with the developments to assess risk on a Euro-Mediterranean scale through the risk assessment engine of GEM.