Seismic risk, country by country
A working reference on the earthquake risk that matters to a (re)insurer: the fault systems that drive loss, the events that shaped each market, and how the exposure enters pricing, accumulation and capital. Every profile is modelled and validated by Dynamis.
Southeast Asia
Philippines
The Philippines is one of the most seismically exposed economies on Earth: an archipelago on the Pacific Ring of Fire, squeezed between two opposing subduction trenches and cut lengthwise by a 1,200-kilometre transform fault. The West Valley Fault runs directly beneath Metro Manila, where 14 million people and 31.2% of national output are concentrated, and it has ruptured four times in the last 1,400 years. For a (re)insurer the question is not whether a damaging earthquake happens, but where the next one lands relative to the accumulation.
South America
Peru
Peru sits above one of the most heavily loaded segments of the Nazca subduction zone. The stretch of megathrust facing Lima has not fully ruptured since 1746, when a magnitude 8.8 earthquake and a 24-metre tsunami destroyed the capital and erased Callao, and the published recurrence for that rupture is about 305 years. Lima and Callao now concentrate close to half of Peru's GDP and 11 million people, while roughly 3% of the country's homes carry earthquake cover. Few markets anywhere combine a sharper tail with a thinner cushion.
More countries are being added. If you need a profile for a specific market or portfolio, we can build and validate it against the national code.