Acknowledgements

The development of the European Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM20) has been supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in the framework of the projects SERA, RISE, EPOS-IP and in collaboration with GEM (Global Earthquake Model Foundation) and EPOS (European Plate Observing System).

We are grateful all researchers, scientist, experts and engineers contributing to the development of the 2020 European Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM20), in various way from data compilation and curation to knowledge transfer during numerous meetings and webinars: 

Andrea Antonucci, António Araújo Correia, Sinan Akkar, Kuvvet Atakan, Jure Atanackov, Hamid Sadegh Azar, Stephane Baize, Julien Barriere, Paolo Bazzuro, Maria Belen Benito, Myriam Belvaux, Bjarni Bessason, Dino Bindi, Christian Bosse, Thierry Cameelbeck, Eduardo Cansado Carvalho, Michele Carafa, Fernando Carrilho, Alexandra Carvalho, Carlo Virgilio Cauzzi, Gilles Celli, Eugenio Chioccarelli, Carmen Cioflan, Pasquale Cito, Cécile Cornou, Helen Crowley, Edward Cushing, Susana Custódio, Snjezana Cvijic-Amulic, Nicola D'Agostino, Vera D'Amico, Nicolas D'Oreye, Jamal al Dabeek, Atefe Darzi, Mathias Dolsek, John Douglas, Branko Dragicevic, Dejan Dragojević, Stephane Drouet, Blaise Duvernay, João  Estevão, Donat Fäh, Ekkehard Fehling, Joao Fonseca, Mariano Garcia-Fernandez, Eulalia Gracia, Gottfried Grünthal, Benedikt Halldórsson, Florian Haslinger, Marian Herak, Jomard Herve, Stefan Hiemer, Fabrice Hollander, Shible Hussein, Iunio Iervolinio, Diethelm Kaiser, Vanja Kastelic, Amir M. Kaynia, Rexhep Koci, Annakaisa Korja, Sreeram  Kotha, Svetlana Kovacevic, Milad Kowsari, Farnaz Bayat, Jónas Þór Snæbjörnsson, Olga-Joan Ktenidou, Daniela Kuehn, Kresimir Kuk, Neki Kuka, Pierre Labbe, Steffi Lammers, Giovani Lanzano, Björn Lund, Claudia Abril, Lucia Luzi, Francesco Maesano, Elena Manea, Päivi Mäntyniemi, Basil Margaris, Christophe Martin, Warner  Marzocchi, Frederic Masson, Luís Matias, Carlo Meletti, Nikolaos Melis, Albero Michelini, Jadranka Mihaljevic, Zoran Milutinovic, José Antonio Peláez Montilla, Ilaria Mosca, Roger Musson, Shemsi Mustafa, Adrien Oth, Bruno Pace, Roberto Paolucci, Christos Papaioannou, Florin Pavel, Laura Peruzza, Rui Pinho, Kyriazis Pitilakis, Valerio Poggi, Mircea Radulian, Evi Riga, Philippe Roth, Agathe Roulle, Zafeiria Roumelioti, Radmila Salic, Abdullah Sandikkaya, Antoine Schlupp, Jochen Schwarz, Oona Scotti, Barbara Sket-Motnikar, Vitor Silva, Anne Socquet, Efthimios Sokos, Mathilde Sorensen, Carlos Sousa Oliveira, Thomas Spies, Max Stuchi, Nikolaos Theodoulidis, Mara Tiberti, Paola Traversa, Nino Tsereteli, Radu Vacareanu, Dina Vales, Roberto Vallone, Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, Kris Vanneste, Emmanuel Viallet, Daniele Vigano, Francesco Visini, Stefan Weginger, Polona Zupancic

Special thanks to the SERA project management and logistics: Kauzar Saleh Contell and Romano Meier. 

Next, we would like to thank IT team at Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich for their excellent support on maintaining the servers, update the databases and upgrade the EFEHR web page and the hazard.EFEHR web platform to access the 2020 models: Philipp Kästli, Leandra Eberle, Emil Zylis, Emilia Petronio and Cyrill Bonjour.   

We would like to extend our gratitude to Michèle Marti, Nadja Valenzuela, Irina Dallo and Simone Zaugg for their creativity and coordination of the outreach activities.

In addition, we would like to thank Marco Pagani for scientific discussions and feedback; and Michele Simionato for timely OpenQuake improvements.

Finally, the authors would wish to express their appreciation to the SC8 Ad-hoc Working Groups for the excellent collaboration during the ESHM20 evaluation: Pierre Labbe, Philippe Bisch, António Araújo Correia, Hamid Sadegh Azar, Alexandra Carvalho, Matjaž Dolšek, Blaise Duvernay, João Estevão, Ekkehard Fehling, Max Gündel, Iunio Iervolino, Christophe Martin, Roberto Paolucci, Evangelia Peli, Kyriasis Pitilakis, Jochen Schwarz, Mathilde Sorensen, Evi Riga, Kris Vanneste, Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, Emanuel Viallet, Radu Vacareanu