Furthermore,all existing attempts to measure disaster impacts,
including the one described here,do not account for the direct
impacts that are more difficult to quantify,especially the effect on
natural capital (e.g.on the natural environment and the ecosystem
services it provides us).For all these reasons,our quantification
here should be viewed a significantly underestimating the overall
impact of of the Christchurch earthquake(s)and the Greater
Bangkok floods on human activity(Table1).