The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has welcomed the launch of a new web-based platform that will provide global access to critical information on earthquakes and enable 'cutting-edge' risk assessment aimed at limiting the hazard of these potentially devastating natural events.
The platform - known as OpenQuake - is a 'major milestone' for the international community of earthquake hazard and risk experts, according to Margareta Wahlström, the head of UNISDR, who hailed the unveiling in a press release today while emphasizing that the deep understanding of risk remained the basis of any disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy and action.
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