Earthquakes: insurance claims and indemnity payments
CNSF earthquake and volcanic-eruption insurance statistics since 2015, by state, seismic zone, business activity, asset type, coverage and cause. Separates indemnities paid, claim-amount movements, deductibles, coinsurance, reinsurance and recoveries. Rows are statistical groups, not individual claims. Amounts are current MXN pesos; reporting year is not necessarily disaster year.
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Mexico: earthquake insurance indemnities paid by state · 2025
Current MXN pesos, rounded by the source. Payments reported in 2025 may concern earthquakes in earlier years. Includes earthquake and volcanic-eruption insurance.
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Ciudad de Mexico accounts for 42.4% of the displayed total (214M). Together with Guerrero, the top two categories make up 55.1%.
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Try a state, coverage or “Casa Habitación”, then filter reporting year and cause. Compare indemnities with deductibles or reinsurance, without adding them into one total cost. Reporting years may include claims from earlier earthquakes. Policy denomination does not change that published amounts are in MXN.
31,383 records
| Reporting year | Published state | Insured asset | Insurance coverage | Cause of loss | Reported claim/coverage observations | Indemnity paid (MXN) | Claim amount and adjustments (MXN) | Inspect record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Aguascalientes | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$1,474,140 | |
| 2015 | Baja California | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | $33,190,200 | |
| 2015 | Chiapas | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$20,000 | |
| 2015 | Colima | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$20,000 | |
| 2015 | Distrito Federal | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$10,000 | |
| 2015 | Distrito Federal | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 7 | $0 | $0 | |
| 2015 | Distrito Federal | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$2,500 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 2 | $522,205 | $1,361 | |
| 2015 | Jalisco | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | $10,632 | |
| 2015 | Estado de Mexico | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 2 | $0 | $0 | |
| 2015 | Michoacan | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$46,021 | |
| 2015 | Nuevo Leon | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$88,397 | |
| 2015 | Tabasco | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | $17,969 | |
| 2015 | Veracruz | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 3 | $0 | $35,937 | |
| 2015 | Veracruz | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | $0 | |
| 2015 | Distrito Federal | Contenidos | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$7 | |
| 2015 | Baja California | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $19,445 | $1,906 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 2 | $0 | -$7,009 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 2 | $0 | -$257,863 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | $0 | |
| 2015 | Morelos | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $456 | $228 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Contenidos | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$127,120 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$130,743 | |
| 2015 | Guerrero | Contenidos | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | -$5,770 | |
| 2015 | Distrito Federal | Edificio | Terremoto | Terremoto | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Schema
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Countrycountry | Text | |
Datasetdataset_id | Text | |
Statistical-group locatorrecord_id | Text | |
Reporting yearyear | Integer | |
Published statestate_name | Text | |
Policy denominationpolicy_currency_category | Text | Policy denomination category, not the currency of the published statistical amounts. |
Business activitybusiness_activity | Text | May be empty. |
Sales channelsales_channel | Text | May be empty. |
Portfolio typeportfolio_type | Text | May be empty. |
Insurance subtypeinsurance_subtype | Text | May be empty. |
First-risk typefirst_risk_type | Text | May be empty. |
Insurance typeinsurance_type | Text | May be empty. |
Property useasset_use | Text | May be empty. |
Coastal distance bandcoastal_distance_band | Text | May be empty. |
Seismic zoneseismic_zone | Text | May be empty. |
Insured assetasset_type | Text | May be empty. |
Insurance coveragecoverage | Text | May be empty. |
Cause of lossloss_cause | Text | May be empty. |
Floor countfloor_count | Integer | Number of floors as published; not an additive financial measure. |
Claim amount and adjustments (MXN)claim_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Indemnity paid (MXN)claim_paid | Number | May be empty. |
Reinsurance amount (MXN)reinsurance_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Amount recovered (MXN)recovered_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Deductible (MXN)deductible_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Coinsurance (MXN)coinsurance_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Adjustment expenses (MXN)adjustment_expenses | Number | May be empty. |
Salvage amount (MXN)salvage_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Published property value (not additive)insured_location_value | Number | Published property-value context. May repeat across coverages or claims, includes extreme source values, and must not be summed as loss or exposure. |
Reported claim/coverage observationsclaim_count | Integer | May be empty. |
Reported insured-location observationsinsured_location_count | Integer | Reported insured-location observations, not unique buildings or policies and not a population coverage rate. |
Written premium (MXN)premium_written | Number | May be empty. |
Retained premium (MXN)premium_retained | Number | May be empty. |
Earned premium (MXN)premium_earned | Number | May be empty. |
Direct commission (MXN)commission_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Third-party recoveries (MXN)third_party_recovered_amount | Number | May be empty. |
Published building value (not additive)building_value | Number | Published property-value context, potentially repeated across contracts; not unique exposure or spending. |
Published contents value (not additive)contents_value | Number | May be empty. |
Consequential-loss value (not additive)consequential_loss_value | Number | May be empty. |
Liability limit (not additive)maximum_liability | Number | May be empty. |
Currencycurrency | Text | |
Source linksource_url | Text | May be empty. |
Source filesource_file | Text |