GEM's South Africa earthquake risk model was generated using the hazard model for South Africa developed by the South Africa Council for Geoscience as the national hazard model, and for input to South Africa building design regulations.

The vulnerability and exposure models and data were developed by GEM and cover the residential, commercial and industrial building stock.

The risk model may be used to assess potential financial losses to commercial, industrial and residential buildings due to earthquake ground shaking. Further technical information can be found in the documentation.

GEM extensively collaborated with its private and public partners to test and validate the model against industry standards in order to produce a new model that represents GEM’s view of risk. The model is available in Oasis and Touchstone formats, as well as through the NASDAQ platform.