Some estimates have gone even higher, he said, up to 100 billion galaxies.

"I think that the Street's estimates are going to be low for the first quarter," he added.

In 2002 an estimate for the town went as far as 46,800 in total.

"It's anybody's guess where the estimate is going to be," she said.

"The estimates go from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands," he said.

But the city's chief financial officer has put the cost closer to $535 million, and other estimates have gone higher.

The pessimistic estimate of fuel on board came and went with no seismic report.

Other estimates of the number of dead went as high as 100.

If you don't control your panic, the estimate goes to one hundred percent.

Some estimates for total number deaths in the Gulag go beyond 10 million.