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Consider the financial losses that would occur if a real major quake struck in/near the Panama Canal Zone and wrecked some of the locks. ...Shipping would revert to having to sail around the Southern tip of South America to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What was reported under those circumstances would depend, in large part, on what was insured. They have to get numbers for “financial loss due to Event X” from somewhere, and it’s heavily dependent on insurance liability.
I don’t know to what extent any kind of insurance coverage would indemnify losses due to an event such as loss of Panama Canal function. It might even be different depending on whether the disruption was due to natural forces or political events. Insurance companies try to cover the less-likely outcomes!