Table 3: Summary measures for the impact of earthquakes on human populations, 1980-2009 (n=738).

Notes: Best estimate figures are based on the average reported number of deaths or injuries in an event; homeless and affected populations were rarely reported by sources other than EM-DAT thus ranges are not presented.

Reported Overall Impact of Earthquakes
Human Consequence	# of Events			Best Estimate		Range
Deaths	687			372,634		314,531-412,599
Injuries	417			995,219		845,345-1,145,093
Homeless	376			16,003,542		---
Affected	688			61,521,492		---
Event Summary Statistics
Human Consequence		# of Events		Median	Mean		Range
Deaths (all sources)		687 (93.1%)
Reported by EM-DAT		686	93.0%	2	554		0-87,476
Reported by NOAA		366	49.6%	9	933		1-87,652
Reported by USGS		127	17.2%	0	1,289		0-87,350
Injuries (all sources)
Reported by EM-DAT		324	43.9%	100	2,593		1-166,812
Reported by NOAA		296	40.1%	60	21,614		1-374,171
Reported by USGS		69	9.4%	100	19,641		0-166,836
Homeless (all sources)
Reported by EM-DAT		372	50.4%	0	297,140		0-5,000,000
Reported by		16	2.2%	46,594	970,495		328-4,000,000
Affected Population (EM-DAT)		677	91.7%	3152	200,783		1-46,000,000