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Table 1.

Major earthquakes of the last 20 years with reported statistics in the literature.⁹^–¹¹

Location, country (year)	Mortality	Crush syndrome	Dialyzed
Spitak, Armenia (1988)	25,000	600	225–385
Northern Iran (1990)	>40,000	(?)	156
Kobe, Japan (1995)	5,000	372	123
Marmara, Turkey (1999)	>17,000	639	477
Chi-Chi, Taiwan (1999)	2,405	52	32
Gujarat, India (2001)	20,023	35	33
Boumerdes, Algeria (2003)	2,266	20 (?)	15 (?)
Bam, Iran (2003)	26,000	124	96
Kashmir, Pakistan (2005)	>80,000	118	65
Sichuan, China (2008)^*	69,000	?	?
Haiti (2010)	220,000	92	51
TOTAL	> 500,000	>2,000	>1,200

^* Although many single center reports appeared in the literature, the overall number of crush cases is unknown after this catastrophe.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2011 April; 2(2): e0039. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2011 April 30. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10039.