QGIS plugin to drive the OpenQuake Engine, to develop Social Vulnerability and Integrated Risk composite indices, and to predict building recovery times following an earthquake

This QGIS plugin allows users to drive OpenQuake Engine calculations of physical hazard and risk, and to load the corresponding outputs as QGIS layers. Those outputs are automatically styled and can be further explored through interactive data visualization tools that are provided by the plugin.

The toolkit also enables users to develop composite indicators to measure and quantify social characteristics, and to combine them with estimates of human or infrastructure loss.

A post-earthquake recovery modeling framework is incorporated into the toolkit, to produce building level and/or community level recovery functions, that predict recovery times following an earthquake.

This plugin has been created by the GEM Foundation.

Installation and troubleshooting

This plugin runs with QGIS 3.0 and above.

On Microsoft Windows, QGIS includes all the software dependencies needed by the plugin.

On macOS and Linux, please make sure that Scipy and Matplotlib with Qt5 backend are installed. On macOS, please also make sure that Pillow is installed.

On macOS:

$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade matplotlib scipy Pillow

On Ubuntu (Debian and similar):

$ sudo apt install python3-scipy python3-matplotlib python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit

On Fedora and similar:

$ sudo dnf install python3-scipy python3-matplotlib python3-matplotlib-qt5

On macOS make sure to run the script located under /Applications/Python 3.6/Install Certificates.command, after Python has been installed, to update the SSL certificates bundle.

On Fedora, please follow these instructions.

The plugin can be installed using the QGIS Plugins Manager, that is accessible through the QGIS menu as Plugins -> Manage and install plugins. Please note that the Settings of the Plugins Manager contain a checkbox to Show also experimental plugins. If that option is checked, the latest version of the plugin that is marked as experimental will be available for installation. Otherwise, the latest stable version will be installable. Experimental versions contain new functionalities that may have not been properly tested yet, and that could cause the plugin or QGIS to break or to behave unexpectedly.

Some users reported issues about upgrading the plugin to its latest version. We recommend to reinstall the plugin instead, in order to make sure the new installation is done in a clean folder.

User manual

The user manual for each of the released versions of this plugin is available here.