USGS Earthquake Hazards Program alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, shown against it.

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program FEMA National Risk Index Verisk Extreme Event Solutions Karen Clark & Company
Vendor U.S. Geological Survey Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Verisk Analytics Karen Clark & Company
Pricing model Free Free Quote only Quote only
Free tier Yes Yes No No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Engineers, planners, insurers and researchers needing authoritative, free US seismic hazard data. Emergency managers, planners and analysts benchmarking relative disaster risk across US communities. Insurers, reinsurers and ILS managers pricing and reserving for natural catastrophe risk. Insurers and reinsurers wanting an open, customizable alternative to closed catastrophe-model vendors.
Pricing

Free federal government program; all data, maps and tools are publicly funded and openly available.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free federal government dataset and tool, funded and maintained by FEMA.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Licensed per model/territory to insurers and reinsurers; pricing is quote-only and not published.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Licensed to insurers, reinsurers and ILS managers; pricing is quote-only and not published.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • National Seismic Hazard Model probabilistic ground-motion maps
  • Near-real-time ShakeMap shaking-intensity maps after earthquakes
  • Unified Hazard Tool for site-specific hazard curves
  • Design ground-motion values for building codes
  • Global and US earthquake monitoring and catalogs
  • Earthquake Hazard Toolbox for exploring NSHM data
  • 0–100 composite risk score for every US county and census tract
  • Coverage of 18 natural hazard types
  • Combines Expected Annual Loss, Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience
  • Interactive web map for exploring county- and tract-level risk
  • Downloadable datasets via OpenFEMA
  • Publicly documented scoring methodology
  • Probabilistic catastrophe models for hurricane, earthquake, severe convective storm, flood and wildfire
  • Touchstone modelling and portfolio-analytics platform
  • Exceedance-probability loss curves for pricing and reserving
  • Coverage across 110+ countries
  • Climate-conditioned catastrophe model variants
  • Insurance-linked securities and reinsurance analytics
  • Site-specific engineering risk analysis
  • Terrorism, pandemic and cyber catastrophe models
  • RiskInsight open loss-modelling platform
  • Probabilistic models for hurricane, earthquake, severe convective storm and wildfire
  • Support for user-supplied or third-party event sets and vulnerability curves
  • Global peril coverage across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe
  • Interactive mapping and portfolio analytics
  • Real-time event response and loss estimation
  • Reinsurance and ILS structuring analytics

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