Open models and software for assessing the vulnerability of the European building stock

Abstract

Reproducibility and transparency have become standard practice in earthquake loss modelling following a growing demand from both the public and private sectors for understandable and accessible risk model input data, software and results. Since the 1990's the European scientific community has worked together on many aspects of seismic hazard and risk modelling. These advances have led to the 2020 European Seismic Risk Model (ESRM20), which has been computed with open source software and is now being openly released to the wider scientific community. This paper presents the recently released input models and software to assess the vulnerability of the European building stock within ESRM20.