The primary goal of OpenSHA is to improve Seismic Hazard Analysis by providing a platform that can accommodate both past and future models.

To this end, OpenSHA is object-oriented, web- & GUI-enabled, open-source, and freely available.

Our goal is to provide a framework where any arbitrarily complex (e.g., physics based) Earthquake Rupture Forecast, ground-motion model, or engineering-response model can “plug in” for analysis without having to change what’s being plugged into.

Although some applications will be stand alone, our goal is also to enable the various SHA components to be geographically distributed over the internet in what we term a “community modeling environment”, all tied together with a user-friendly web interface.

This infrastructure should significantly reduce the gap between cutting-edge geophysics and state-of-the-art hazard and risk evaluations.

We encourage participation from anyone in this development.

Our brief overview would be an appropriate next step for learning more.