Table 3. Details of victim identification in individual mass disasters.
| Author | Year | Disaster | Disaster subtype | Country | State/city | Total number of victims | Number of identified victims (%) | Number identified by FO (%) | FO used in combination with other methods | Other methodologies used for identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bastiaan et al. [7] | 1984 | Natural | Bushfires | Australia | Victoria | 72 | 22 (30.55) | 14 (63.63) | NA | 8 |
| Solheim et al. [8] | 1992 | Accident | Ferry | Norway | Oslo | 158 | 158 (100) | 107 (67.72) | NA | NA |
| Brkic et al. [9] | 1997 | Criminal | War | Croatia | Petrinja | 46 | 27 (58.69) | 7 (25.92) | NA | Personal, 20 |
| Brkic et al. [10] | 2000 | Criminal | War | Croatia | Slavonia | 1000 | 824 (82.4) | 206 (25) | 527 | Others, 91 |
| Soomer et al. [11] | 2001 | Accident | Ferry | Europe | Estonia | 852 | 94 (11.03) | 57 (60.63) | NA | NA |
| Dumanèiæ et al. [12] | 2002 | Accident | Train | Croatia | Zagreb | 152 | 111 (73.02) | 0 | 6 | Fingerprint, 20; Personal, 42; Combination, 49 |
| 2002 | Accident | Air crash | Croatia | Vrbovec | 176 | 166 (94.31) | 0 | 37 | Fingerprint, 6; Personal, 58; Combination, 102 | |
| Hutt et al. [13] | 2005 | Accident | Air crash | France | Strasbourg | 87 | 85 (97.7) | 56 (65.88) | NA | Other, 29 |
| Bux et al. [14] | 2006 | Accident | Air crash | Nepal | Jomsom | 18 | 14 (77.77) | 10 (71.42) | FO+Anthropological+Personal, 4 | NA |
| Schuller-Götzburg et al. [15] | 2007 | Natural | Tsunami | Thailand | Phuket | 4280 | 2679 (62.59) | 1105 (41.24) | FO+Personal, 206; FO+Fingerprint, 49; FO+Fingerprint+Personal, 64; FO+DNA, 1; FO+Fingerprint+DNA, 1; FO+Fingerprint+Personal+DNA, 3; FO+Personal+DNA, 22 | Fingerprint, 670; Fingerprint+DNA, 9; Fingerprint+Personal, 119; Fingerprint+Personal+DNA, 12; DNA, 27; Personal, 6; Personal+DNA, 384; Other, 1 |
| Tan et al. [16] | 2007 | Accident | Air crash | Indonesia | Southern Sumatra | 104 | 6 (5.7) | 2 (33.33) | NA | Fingerprint, 2; Age, 1; Personal, 1 |
| Prieto et al. [17] | 2007 | Criminal | Terrorist attacks | Spain | Madrid | 191 | 191 (100) | 0 | NA | DNA, 31; Fingerprint, 145; Combination, 15 |
| Hinchliffe et al. [18] | 2009 | Natural | Bushfires | Australian | Victoria | 173 | 172 (99.42) | 69 (40.11) | NA | NA |
| Trengrove et al. [19] | 2011 | Natural | Earthquake | New Zealand | Christchurch | 181 | 177 (97.79) | 58 (32.76) | FO+Fingerprint+DNA, 25 | DNA, 7; Fingerprint, 76 Physical/visual, 11 |
| Hinchliffe et al. [20] | 2011 | Accident | Air crash | USA | Kentucky | 50 | 47 (94) | 47 (100) | NA | NA |
| Bush et al. [21] | 2011 | Accident | Air crash | USA | Newark | 50 | 50 (100) | 38 (76) | NA | Combination, 12 |
| Manhart et al. [22] | 2012 | Accident | Vehicle | Germany | Autobahn A19 | 8 | 8 (100) | 0 | 0 | DNA, 7; Hip implant, 1 |
| Barberia et al. [23] | 2015 | Accident | Train | Barcelona | Castelldefels Platja station | 12 | 12 (100) | 0 | 0 | DNA, 12; Fingerprint, 11 |
| Obafunwa et al. [24] | 2015 | Accident | Air crash | Nigeria | Lagos | 152 | 148 (97.36) | 15 (10.13) | DNA+FO, 133 | NA |
| Iino et al. [25] | 2015 | Natural | Tsunami | Japan | East Japan | 15892 | 15736 (99.01) | 1259 (8) | NA | DNA, 157; Fingerprint, 315; Personal, 14005 |