Product Description: Natural Hazards Edition
Web Version (log-on) and API
1. General
1.1 The Natural Hazards Edition of the Munich Re Location Risk Intelligence is a software as a service (SaaS) solution and, as such, delivers natural hazard-related results (scores and analyses) for specific requested locations.
1.2 The Natural Hazards Edition’s results are estimates based on Munich Reinsurance Company’s own or licensed data. The estimates can be used by the Client as a decision-making aid. MR Service cannot therefore pledge or guarantee, either explicitly or implicitly, the completeness or accuracy of information that it has properly compiled.
1.3 Based on the Edition’s results, two types of scores are available
| Hazard Scores | Munich Re’s hazard scores for the twelve major perils (Earthquake, Volcano, Tsunami, Tropical Cyclone, Extratropical Storm, Hail, Tornado, Lightning, Wildfire, River Flood, Flash Flood and Storm Surge). |
| Risk Scores | Munich Re’s risk scores for Overall, Earthquake, Storm and Flood are provided on a single location and portfolio basis and corresponding reports are available. |
2. Web Version (log-on) of Natural Hazards Edition
2.1 General Functionalities of Web Version
| Base maps | Grey Background, Dark Grey Background, OpenStreetMap,Topography, Terrain, Streets, Hybrid Satellite |
| Portfolio Risk Analysis | Manage up to six data collections (e.g.: portfolios) simultaneously and intersect/filter according to NATHAN hazard maps. |
| Geocoding | Integrated geocoder for location visualisation based on address search within the application. Geocoding results (latitude, longitude) cannot be extracted. |
| Upload/download | Upload of data as Excel or CSV template files and download as Excel, CSV or PDF. |
| Visualisation of locations | Cluster View, Heatmap View, Regions View (e.g.: country, county, city, postcode, CRESTA), Single Locations View. |
| Quickinfo | Quick overview of selected KPIs (Count, Total Sum, Average). |
| Guidance | Provides you with an overview of the activated content and quick access to steering options (e.g.: opacity steering and filter). |
| Polygons | Freehand and circle polygons as well as upload of a polygon as KML files with filter functionality. Polygons can be saved andassigned to groups. |
| Location & RiskInformation | Depending on data, additional information on each location can be shown in an info popup. Additional content (.png, .jpeg, .pdf) can be attached to each location (e.g.: Risk Survey or Claims Reports). |
| General Maps & Information | Elevation, Population Density, Distance to Coast, Flood Defence SoP. |
2.2 Specific Functionalities of Web Version
| Hazard Scores & Maps | Munich Re’s hazard scores and maps for the twelve major perils (Earthquake, Volcano, Tsunami, Tropical Cyclone, Extratropical Storm, Hail, Tornado, Lightning, Wildfire, River Flood, Flash Flood and Storm Surge). |
| Risk Scores | Munich Re’s risk scores for Overall, Earthquake, Storm and Flood are provided on a single location and portfolio basis and corresponding reports are available. |
| General Maps & Information | CRESTA Low Res and High Res, Soil and Shaking Hazard, Global Active Faults including additional Geo Basis Data. |
| Footprints | Munich Re footprints are available and can be shown for a number of selected major natural catastrophe events. |
2.3 Specific Open Data Functionalities of Web Version – optional, to be added by the costumer
| Global Earthquake | GEM global earthquake (“GEM layers PGA – no soil”) |
| Landslide | GFDRR Landslide |
| Water Stress | Aqueduct Water Stress |
3. API Version of Natural Hazards Edition
Using the application programming interface (“API”) of Munich Re’s Location Risk Intelligence, results can be generated in the following areas:
3.1. General API Services of Location Risk Intelligence
| General | DistanceToCoast, PopulationDensity, NathanElevation |
3.2 Specific API Services of Natural Hazards Edition
Results can be generated in the following areas using the specific application programming interface (“API”) of the Natural Hazards Edition:
| Hazards | NathanEarthquake, NathanVolcano, NathanTsunami, NathanTropicalCyclone, NathanExtratropicalStorm, NathanHail, NathanTornado, NathanLightning, NathanWildfire, NathanRiverFlood, NathanFlashFlood, NathanStormSurge, NathanActiveFaults, NathanSoilAndShaking |
| Risk Scores | NathanOverall, NathanEarthquake, NathanStorm, NathanFlood |
(Last updated: February 2023)