The v2026.1 Global Seismic Risk Model covers economic losses, number of buildings destroyed, built-up area destroyed, fatalities, population rendered homeless, and equivalent embodied carbon loss. The main seismic risk map presents the geographic distribution of the average annual number of buildings destroyed due to earthquake ground shaking across the residential, commercial, and industrial building stock. The assessment does not account for secondary earthquake- triggered hazards, such as tsunamis, liquefaction, landslides, or post-earthquake fires. Economic losses represent the direct physical impacts of earthquakes. 

These results are an update of the global maps released in 2018, as described in Silva et al. (2020), and those released in 2023, and are based on best available and publicly accessible datasets and models, which have been collected, curated and maintained in collaboration between local experts and GEM Foundation scientists. The underlying dataset used to create the main map can be requested as a shapefile for use in research and public-good applications without cost, or for a licensing fee in the case of commercial applications.