Lahars inundated neighborhoods of towns in five municipalities (Guadalupe, Verapaz, Tepetitán, San Cayetano Istepeque, and San Vicente) killing more than 250 people and destroying between 130 – 200 homes (Figure 2).
It also devastated the agriculture-dependent economies of those three states, as well as that of Guadeloupe, destroying between 80 % and 100 of the banana crops.
Officials said late last year that 1,870 square miles (4,848 sq km) of rain forest were destroyed between August 2013 and July 2014.
Izabella Teixeira told participants at a news conference that 4,848 square kilometers (1,870 square miles) of rain forest were destroyed between August 2013 and July 2014.
By 2002, 1.5 quadrillion yen of wealth had been destroyed, between the stock market and falling land prices, the rough equivalent of three times the country's gross domestic product, according to the Nomura Research Institute.
They show dozens of structures that appear to have been destroyed between last Wednesday and Sunday, the preliminary analysis said, and multiple craters that appear to reflect the impact of heavy weaponry.
The project, however, does have environmental costs, and would "destroy between 19 to 25 acres of wetlands and open waters and approximately 112 acres of upland natural areas including 1.7 acres of forest," according to a decision from the Federal Transit Administration.
By the 3rd century ce the Blemmyes of the eastern, or Arabian, desert (Beja) had destroyed the Meroitic culture in Lower Nubia, and Meroe itself was destroyed between 320 and 350 by an expedition that was dispatched by Aeizanes, king of Aksum.
The prosecution alleged Smith's statement was changed the day before Mahmood was due to give evidence in that pre-trial hearing, following a "flurry" of texts and emails – since "deleted or destroyed" – between the journalist and his driver during which Mahmood was emailed Smith's original statement.
A recently published book, The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq from George W Bush to Barack Obama by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor, from which the above figures are taken, reveals that the US marines "estimated that out of about 50,000 residences in the city, their operations had destroyed between 7,000 and 10,000, as well as 60 mosques".
For example, 20 homesteads were reported to be looted and destroyed between 2008 and 2011 in and around Kaptur alone.
