Directly after the earthquake the casualty count was assessed as 350 dead.

This brought the total American casualty count to 8 dead, 70 wounded.

Such costs of war, personal and financial, are not revealed by official casualty counts.

But that was Tuesday morning before the casualty count started.

That casualty count, originally reported as above, was subsequently changed by the news media.

An initial casualty count of 30 was reported with at least 150 injuries.

The final casualty count would likely never be known.

This was the largest civilian casualty count in any country.

The lists are incomplete and the actual casualty count is much higher.

The casualty count as of 22 May stood at 85 dead and 1,378 injured.