COMET and the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) have been formally collaborating since 2021 with the overarching aims of improving seismic hazard modelling in Central Asia and exploring methods for closer integration of the latest scientific developments in areas such as satellite geodesy and palaeoseismology.

Our initial three-year work programme was designed to begin in January 2021 and end at the end of 2023. COMET has now extended this collaboration with GEM through a project aimed at improving probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment in Central Asia until December 2025.

Funding from the UK GEM subscription co-funds work on palaeoseismology and fault mapping (COMET staff in Oxford) and InSAR work (COMET staff in Leeds). The funding enables knowledge transfer of existing COMET activities in these areas into the GEM Central Asia seismic hazard model.