Given the devastation and confusion here, that is a number no one has arrived at yet.
But given the devastation wrought by the earthquake, some bodies may never be recovered.
It might be difficult to imagine a similar dynamic occurring now, given the devastation in California's housing market.
Given the devastation in the Nasdaq, such profits will in future be far more difficult, if not impossible, to come by.
The problem with completing strong evidence-based studies in this manner is that given the devastation of the disease, if we have a therapy that we think can help, we want to treat all the effected animals with it.
"And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be — given the devastation it is wreaking — should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action".
It would be mean to criticise the surface though, with the match representing something of a triumph for the groundstaff given the devastation across Chennai that was wreaked by Monday's cyclone; the hot coals they used to dry out the strip took any life out of it but it is better than no match at all.
The dusty old sofa next to which I pitched my sleeping bag was propped up by a prewar Baedeker guide to Dresden, and I remember thinking, as I nodded off to sleep, that this was probably all a prewar Baedeker of Dresden was good for, given the devastation of that city by Allied bombing raids.
"I hope and pray that's not the case but, given the devastation in some of those closed canyons, it's certainly a high probability," Mr Pelle said.
"Would it be different given the devastation of these two hurricanes?" he continued.
