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Friday, October 2, 2009

Natural disasters..

Earthquake:
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoService/disasters/china-earthquake-sichuan.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7414249.stm

Quake costs firms $9.5 billion, according to government70 billion yuan ($10.14 billion) reconstruction fund primarily for infrastructure
deaths: 100,000 (estimation)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4154277.stm
That adds up to about 12 billion I believe/
deaths: 230,000

US wildfires:
http://www.wildfirelessons.net/uploads/Wildfire_Economics_LongL_pdf.pdf
that is, recent public losses
attributable to major forest wildfires may likely, and more accurately, total anywhere from
$20 billion to more than $100 billion per year.

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