OpenQuake User Expe rience, Paul Henshaw and Ben Wyss #GEMRVL2013

1. OpenQuake User Experience
Paul Henshaw and Ben Wyss, GEM Foundation

2. Components Overview
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Engine
– perform hazard and physical risk calculations
– separate libraries for Hazard and Physical Risk code
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Platform
– web-based access to data, models, results and tools
– share your own contributions
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Desktop Tools
– prepare model for use with engine
– compute Integrated Risk

3. OpenQuake Component Interaction

4. OpenQuake Community Interaction

5. OpenQuake Platform
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Find, Explore and Visualize existing data and models
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Download data, models, and tools
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Filter, Combine and Share Maps
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Contribute using online capture tools
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Share results with community
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Local installations also possible

6. Recent Platform Updates (since December)
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Global Component Data-sets
– Active Faults DB
– Geodetic Strain Rate
– Historical Event Catalogue including link to INGV archive
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Export / Download
– Exposure Export Tool (GED4GEM Level 0/1)
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Visualization experiments
– Hazard maps and curves
– Time series

7. OpenQuake Desktop Tools
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Python Libraries for scientific developers
– oq-eqcatalogue-tool can be used as independent library
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Graphical User interface (QGIS Plugin / QT application)
– Load (local) event catalogue, visualize events
– Connect to platform to download data – plugin for exposure export
tool, visualize exposure data
– Fragility curve display

8. Future Activity
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Greater integration
– More Platform export tools and corresponding QGIS import plugins
– OpenQuake Engine (HTTP, REST) API
– QGIS Plugins to submit job to OQ engine (via API)
– Platform application to submit job to OQ engine
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New Desktop Modelling Tools
– Hazard: evolution of eq-catalogue plugin
– Physical Risk: exposure and vulnerability
– Integrated Risk: indicators and composite indices